Cat in the Stacks #7
Berkley Prime Crime
March 2016
On Sale: February 23, 2016
Featuring: Charlie Harris
288 pages ISBN: 0425277747 EAN: 9780425277744 Kindle: B00X593CO4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series, librarian Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat Diesel must clear a friend when the evidence is stacked against herโฆ
Springtime in Mississippi is abloom with beauty, but the libraryโs employees are too busy worrying to stop and smell the flowers. The new library director, Elwyn Dillard, is a brash, unfriendly Yankee whoโs on a mission to cut costsโ and his first targets are the archive and the rare book collection.
As annoying as a long-overdue book, Dillard quickly raises the hackles of everyone on staff, including Charlieโs fiery friend Melbaโwhom Dillard wants to replace with someone younger. But his biggest offense is declaring all four-legged creatures banned from the stacks.
With enemies aplenty, the suspect list is long when Dillardโs body is discovered in the library. But things take a turn for the worse when a threatening e-mail throws suspicion on Melba.
Charlie is convinced that his friend is no murderer, especially when he catches sight of a menacing stranger lurking around the library. Now he and Diesel will have to read between the lines, before Melba is shelved under โGโ for guiltyโฆ
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