Overdue or die

Allison Brook

Book - 2023

Carrie Singleton has more than her fair share on her plate: her job at the Clover Ridge Library, preparing for her wedding to Dylan Avery, and hoping that the local art gallery doesn t steal away one of her part-time employees. Her fiancé Dylan accompanies her to the beautiful home of Victor Zalinka art collector and successful businessman to select paintings for an art show at the library. While Carrie muses that Victor's home would be the perfect wedding venue, Dylan spots a forgery among the paintings in Victor's collection. Then Martha Mallory is found murdered in her art gallery. With the assistance of Evelyn, the library ghost; the resident cat, Smoky Joe; and the office manager of Dylan s private investigation company, Car...rie comes up with a suspect list long enough to rival the size of an encyclopedia. During her investigation, Carrie stumbles across a terrible truth: Martha s murder was part of something far bigger and more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. And it all leads back to the art gallery. How far will Carrie go to find the killer and uncover the truth? If the killer finds her first will Carrie finally be taken out of circulation?

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Subjects
Genres
Cozy mysteries
Published
New York, NY : Crooked Lane Books 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Allison Brook (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
295 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781639104833
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A Connecticut librarian, her fiance, and a ghostly friend solve a series of crimes. Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton's beloved Great-Aunt Harriet and Great-Uncle Bosco stand in for her distant parents, so she's anxious when Bosco suffers a heart attack. Her cat, Smoky Joe, and Dylan Avery, her fiance, do their best to cheer her up, but they're soon overwhelmed by art forgeries, murder, and wedding plans. Dylan, an investigator who recovers stolen art, is off to Chicago to clear out his late great-great-uncle's apartment and pick up a valuable Terrance Haggerty painting left to him. As the library prepares to open a new wing, Carrie is involved in festivities involving the library board, the staff, council members, and wealthy donors, all of whom often have differing views. The first event in the new wing is interrupted by a septuagenarian named Emily Pierce Fielding, who claims that the building belongs to her. Carrie's awful night is capped by a call that Dylan's been attacked and his painting stolen. The evidence leads to a ring of art forgers Dylan and his partner plan to track down. When local businessman Victor Zalinka invites Carrie and Dylan to his magnificent house to pick out artworks from his collection to lend to the library gallery, Dylan immediately recognizes that Victor's Haggerty is a forgery. The murder of local gallery owner Martha Mallory raises the stakes. Carrie's friend Evelyn Havers, the ghost who haunts the library, wants Carrie to find the killer of her old friend Martha, who harbored many secrets. A complex mystery whose many pieces eventually snap into shape. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.