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The crime-solving doyenne of the Dewey Decimal System, Miss Zukas is back in circulation!

Miss Zukas Series, #9
Avon
June 2006
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Featuring: Wilhelmina "Helma" Zukas
368 pages
ISBN: 0060790822
EAN: 9780060790820
Paperback
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Jo Dereske

Librarian extraordinaire Miss Wilhelmina "Helma" Zukas
wakes up on the morning of her forty-second birthday in the
throes of more than one midlife crisis. Her championing a
collection of local authors' works ignites a dangerous
firestorm of jealousy and anger in tiny Bellehaven. She's
blackmailed by her conniving boss, library director May
Apple Moon, into attending group counseling sessions -- and
two of the participants turn up dead. An obnoxiously bubbly
new librarian is turning the head of Helma's longtime
admirer, Police Chief Wayne Gallant. And worst of all, her
uncuddly feline companion, Boy Cat Zukas, disappears.

Though she's been expressly forbidden to investigate (by
the
scheming Ms. Moon), it's Helma's nature to delve and
research, and she figures there's nothing else now that she
can lose. But too much nosing around in this case, and
she's
not going to make it to forty-three!