Fatal First Edition

Fatal First Edition

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Synopsis

People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum.

Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.

But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse—the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully’s room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn’t commit.

Featuring a cameo by a beloved character from the New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile series!

Release date: February 13, 2024

Publisher: Berkley

Print pages: 304

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Lindsey and her husband Sully are in Chicago for a conference Lindsey wanted to attend about archiving and restoring books when Lindsey finds a very rare book under her seat. She gives it to the event coordinator who states he will return it to the owner. On the train going back to Briar Creek the event coordinator is murdered in the room next to Lindsey and Sully. The train stops at the next station, Briar Creek, where the police chief Emma and the FBI are waiting. Even tho they are now home, nothing goes smoothly for Sully and Lindsey, especially for Sully.
 on 2/14/24
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