The Book Stops Here
Ian Sansom

Mobile Library #3
Harper
August 2008
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Featuring: Israel Armstrong
320 pages
ISBN: 0061452009
EAN: 9780061452000
Kindle: B001BAGW6E
Trade Size / e-Book
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Mystery Amateur Sleuth

A homesick librarian learns you can't go home again.

Disgruntled, disheveled, fish-out-of-water mobile librarian Israel Armstrong is finally going home to London, rattling along with his irascible companion Ted Carson in their rust bucket book van en route to the Mobile Meet. The annual library convention gives Israel the opportunity to catch up with his family, eat paprika chicken and baklava, and drink good coffee. But they've barely found parking when the unimaginable occurs: their library-on-wheels is stolen!

Who on earth would want to take a thirty-year-old traveling disaster with the words "The Book Stops Here" painted across the back? Israel and Ted are determined to find out. But their search is leading them on a very twisty trail through the countryside in pursuit of a suspicious convoy of New Age travelers. And the hunt is raising numerous troubling questions—such as where exactly is Israel's high-flying girlfriend, Gloria? And is Ted really making a move on Israel's widowed mother?