Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery

Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery by Brook, Allison. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781683313861.

The delightful first installment in The Haunted Library Mysteries, featuring “ghosts, libraries, and cats—all my favorite cozy things" (Ali Brandon, author of the Black Cat Bookshop mysteries) Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until shes offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies. The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie’s determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it’s the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Lauras case, disturbing secrets come to light and with each step Carrie takes, she gets closer to ending up like Al. Agatha Award Nominee "Readers of Miranda James, Jenn McKinlay, Carolyn Hart, Nancy Atherton, and Carolyn Haines will be delighted with this paranormal debut." Library Journal starred review, Pick of the Month)