In the depths of the U.S. Library of Congress toil thousands
of researchers, chasing down obsessions, breakthroughs, and
new contributions to human wisdom. But when amateur D.C.
sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American
institution, she discovers a hornet’s nest of intrigue and
murder.
After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to
death among the scholarly stacks, an ambitious TV reporter
links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a
Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City. Annabel suspects
that buried in the Library are secrets some people will do
anything to keep silent–the secret of a rich man’s ambition,
a researcher’s disappearance, and a mysterious diary of
Christopher Columbus’s journey written five hundred years
ago. . . .
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