Springtime in Mississippi is abloom with beauty, but the library’s employees are too busy worrying to stop and smell the flowers. The new library director, Oscar Reilly, is a brash, unfriendly Yankee who’s on a mission to cut costs—and his first targets are the archive and the rare book collection.
As annoying as a long-overdue book, Reilly quickly raises the hackles of everyone on staff, including Charlie’s fiery friend Melba—whom Reilly 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 Reilly's 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 “G” for guilty…
My Thoughts...
This is about the fourth or fifth book I've read in this series, but for some reason this one didn't draw me in like the other books did. I found it very slow going, I more or less made myself finish it since I had bought the book at Amazon. As cozy mysteries go I guess it was an okay read, but so much could have been omitted from the book, such as all the petting of Diesel, the cat. Or his running to the litter box, bumping someones leg to be petted, or calmed down, etc. Once or twice would have been enough, not every few pages...rant over!
I own this book and it is part of my personal library. Three***cat paw stars are all I could scratch up for this one...
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