Checked Out for Murder: A Haunted Library Mystery

About this book

Carrie Singleton and Evelyn the ghost sleuth the slayings of a starlet and a star-crossed psychic in Agatha Award nominee Allison Brooks fourth Haunted Library mystery. Daphne Marriott strolls into Clover Ridge and informs librarian Carrie Singleton that shes a psychic. But had she foreseen what fate awaited her Daphne would have steered clear of the quaint Connecticut town. Evelyn the library ghost tells Carrie that theres more to Daphne than she lets on. The mysterious woman grew up in Clover Ridge with her no-good dad who apparently met his end at the hands of Daphnes brother Billy. Still Daphne proves a welcome distraction when Carries overbearing mother hits town. Moms much younger husband Tom is in a movie thats lensing locally and shes there to keep an eye on him: Toms costar sultry Ilana Reingold is also his ex-fiance and theres no denying the chemistry is still there. Soon after mingling with the moviemakers at a meet-and-greet Daphne is found dead. Carrie and Evelyn investigate assisted by bushy-tailed library cat Smoky Joe. But the suspect list could overflow the library shelves. Has Billy killed another relative? Is their long-missing mother involved? Or Daphnes mean ex-husband? Carries sure she knows who committed the crime but can she bind together the clues before the culprit Dewey-decimates the town?