Fatal First Edition

Informationen zum Autor Jenn McKinlay is the award-winning, New York Times , USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of several mystery and romance series. Her work has been translated into multiple languages in countries all over the world. She lives in sunny Arizona in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband's guitars. Klappentext "Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble. But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse--the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully's room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn't commit."-- Leseprobe 1 How's the windy city?" Nancy Peyton asked. Lindsey Norris glanced at the tiny faces of her friends on her phone. She was missing their weekly crafternoon meeting at the Briar Creek Public Library, where she was the director, and the group had just video called her to see how her archivist conference was going. They were all crammed together, peering into one phone. "Windy is a very accurate description," she said. She was sitting in a conference room in a sectioned ballroom of the Chicago hotel where the Annual Archivists Convention was being held. "Who plans a conference in January in Chicago?" Beth Barker asked. She was the children's librarian, and Lindsey could just make out the astronaut costume she was wearing, bubble helmet and all. "Archivists choose to meet in the off-season so they can spend their money on rare books instead of conferences," Lindsey answered. "I assume outer space is the theme for story time this week?" "You know it," Beth said. "On the story countdown, we've got Mousetronaut, by astronaut Mark Kelly; On the Launch Pad, by Michael Dahl; and Moon's First Friends, by Susanna Leonard Hill. It's going to be far-out." The crafternooners behind her collectively groaned, and Lindsey laughed. Beth had been her roommate in library school, and her enthusiasm for children and reading hadn't waned one bit over the years. "Where's that brother of mine?" Mary Murphy asked. She was squinting into the phone on their end. "He's braving the mob at the coffee shop in the lobby," Lindsey said. Mike Sullivan, known to everyone in Briar Creek as Sully, was Mary's brother, but more importantly, to Lindsey at any rate, he was Lindsey's husband. "Good man," Violet La Rue observed. She was a retired Broadway actress who now ran the local community theater and had been a crafternooner with her best friend Nancy Peyton since Lindsey had started the program several years before. "Did I hear Violet talking about me?" Sully appeared, carrying two cups of coffee as he took the seat beside Lindsey. Lindsey turned the phone so that their friends could see him. They all cried, "Hi, Sully!" and he toasted them with his coffee cup. "What's the craft today?" Lindsey asked. Not being the crafty sort, this was the only part of the program that she didn't love, so she wasn't that upset about missing it, but she didn't want to be rude. "We're working on coiled wire bookmarks," Paula Turner said. She held up ...

Product details

• Authors: Jenn Mckinlay
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9780593639337
• ISBN: 978-0-593-63933-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 208 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A Library Lover's Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense