Welcome to Litsy!

I enjoyed this little whodunit story with lead detective Kate Shackleton. It‘s book 6 in a series but works as a stand alone (I haven‘t read any of the others.) There were a few things on Kate‘s list to include a missing person, a murder, a lost monkey, another missing person and another murder. Also, a lot of it takes place in a library! A quick read for bookclub and #booked2022 ~ a murder mystery, is now complete!

I love library books. A previous reader penciled in a mistype when a word was left out! 🤣🤣🤣

Soaking up some unusually warm November weather in the hammock with flip flops and the pooch! Book club is on Tuesday and I‘m just getting this one started.

Kate Shackleton is asked to trace an illegitimate child given up for adoption. She is also asked to take part in the exorcism of a library reputed to be haunted, during which a body is found in the basement of the library, apparently crushed under falling books.

The rather ominous title did put me off for a bit but it's all good, intriguing fun.

#lunchandabook

Epigraph:
'A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge'
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The newspaper item had been clipped, framed, and now held pride of place on the library's landing.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

“And how I hate this fog! It plays havoc with my catarrh. A person like me, with narrow nostrils, has a hard time of it. You are fortunate to have broad nostrils.“

Enjoyable cozy mystery. The title and library plot got me!

Day 5: My first attempt at #bookombre . I am waaay too exact to enjoy this. Rainbows are one thing, but picking colors all within the same shade sets off my color-wavelength-nerd-radar way too badly. #autumnreads

Day 10 #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading

I love mysteries, so there's lots of #death on my bookshelves.

A #historicalmystery for my #weekend read. Set in a #library in Leeds in 1925, the story has a library ghost, a monkey 🐒 and a search for a long-list child. I #couldn't resist the curved library staircase cover! #cozymystery #mystery

This is a lovely historical mystery. It's the fifth in a series, but the first one I've read and it works as a standalone. The puzzle was well done and all the seemingly disparate pieces were brought together in the end. I can't wait to read the first four in the series! Well done!!