A locked library mystery where sometimes the murder is stranger than fiction…

Nothing is deadlier than angry readers… especially when you murder their librarian

When the body of the chief librarian is found slumped between the Murder and Mystery shelves, the four members of Norcester Library’s reading group decide to put into action all the skills they’ve picked up from their favourite fictional detectives.

If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it’s a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case…

Published
January 23, 2026
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