Author: Dorothy St. James
Published: January 19th 2021 by Berkley Books
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 320 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Beloved Bookroom Mystery #1
First in a new series, finds Assistant Librarian Trudell Beckett flummoxed when her beloved Cypress, S.C., library is transforming into a “bookless” library where patrons can download books or borrow tablets. For Tru and her faithful patrons, this won’t work, they want to feel a book. In a clandestine mission, she decides to start moving select books to a secret library in the basement. All is going well until town councilman Duggar Hargrove, who was behind the library change, is found dead.
Now with time running out before all the remaining books are moved to the town dump, Tru and her band of friends, including a high school nemesis turned police detective, must find out what is really behind the library’s transformation and as a rotating group of possible suspects floats to the top, she finds herself in a delicate balance.
The Broken Spine may be a new series, but the librarian saving the day, complete with a cranky Head Librarian, is redundant and too reminiscent of Jenn McKinley’s Library Lovers Mysteries. The small town with inhabitants as poor as church mice that can warrant their own detective never sits well with me, and the rest of the characters being single dimensional is leading me to think that this series will be a pass.
Now with time running out before all the remaining books are moved to the town dump, Tru and her band of friends, including a high school nemesis turned police detective, must find out what is really behind the library’s transformation and as a rotating group of possible suspects floats to the top, she finds herself in a delicate balance.
The Broken Spine may be a new series, but the librarian saving the day, complete with a cranky Head Librarian, is redundant and too reminiscent of Jenn McKinley’s Library Lovers Mysteries. The small town with inhabitants as poor as church mice that can warrant their own detective never sits well with me, and the rest of the characters being single dimensional is leading me to think that this series will be a pass.
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