Mystery Monday

Fatal First Edition (Library Lovers’ Mystery #14) by Jenn McKinlay.  Berkley Books, 13 February 2024.

This is one of my very favorite cozy series, and I’m always thrilled when a new installment is released.

Here, newlyweds Lindsey Norris and her husband Sully are at a rare book conference in Chicago.  One of the presenters is Brooklyn Wainwright, protagonist of Kate Carlisle’s Bibliophile Mysteries.  Lindsey is, of course, a huge fan (as am I!) and welcomes the chance to meet one of her idols while showing her a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train that she’s stumbled across.

The book is whisked away for safekeeping by the director of the conference, although the astute reader is already aware that it will reappear later in the story.

On the train trip back home, Lindsey and Sully learn that the Highsmith book is valuable enough that someone would kill for possession of it.  

Along with Police Chief Emma Plewicki and their Briar Creek friends, Lindsey and Sully are once more called upon to solve a murder.

This is a wonderful homage to locked-room mysteries, Patricia Highsmith, and Agatha Christie. Jenn McKinlay is to be congratulated!

 

Many thanks to NetGalley for the egalley.