Audeguy, Stephane

Theory of the Clouds 

C. 2007

A survivor of Hiroshima, Akira Kumo has reinvented himself as someone two decades younger and has become an ardent collector of all literature dealing with clouds, narrating the stories to Virginie, the young librarian he has hired to catalog his collection.

Brooks, Geraldine

People of the Book

C. 2008

Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. 

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Corwin C.R.

Unraveling of Violeta Bell

C. 2008

Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls is once again caught up in a murder investigation after she suggests that the newspaper do a story on four elderly women who use a cab to travel from garage sale to garage sale, and one of the women, Violeta Bell, a retired antiques dealer who had claimed to be the rightful queen of Romania, turns up dead. 

D'Amato Barbara

Hard Road: A Cat Marsala Mystery

C. 2001

While attending a festival in Chicago to honor the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, journalist Cat Marsala witnesses the stabbing murder of the chief security guard and confronts a case in which the evidence points to her own brother as the killer. 

Davis Lindsey

Alexandria

C. 2009

In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.

Fowler, Karen Joy

Wit's End

C. 2008

What happens when readers steal you characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels. 

Graves, Sarah

Book of Old Houses

C. 2008

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree undertakes a new investigation into the murder of antiquarian book expert Horace Robotham during a random mugging, after his death is linked to an enigmatic old volume discovered in the cellar of her 1823 fixer-upper. 

Odom, Mel

The Rover

C. 2001

A librarian at a remote, isolated center of learning is kidnapped and sold into slavery in a far-off land, adopted by a thieves' guild, and forced into battle with a powerful dragon that could hold the fate of the entire world in his claw.

Sansome, Ian

The Book Stops Here

C. 2008

After more than six months as the mobile librarian of Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, Israel Armstrong yearns to return to London and civilization. He'll resign to get there, too - until an all-expenses-paid business trip, to a conference of mobile librarians, saves him the trouble. Accompanied by colleague and comic foil Ted Carson, Israel goes home and finds that everything has changed - or maybe he has - except, perhaps, his mother.