A Shush Before Dying: A 1980s Meg Booker Librarian Mystery (Meg Booker Librarian Mysteries Book 1)

Brand-new librarian Meg Booker is just supposed to be checking out books.
Instead, it’s the patrons who are being checked out—permanently.

April, 1985, Fir Grove Library in Portland, Oregon. Meg is made temporary supervisor when her boss takes off on a three-month around-the-world vacation. Right away, things start going wrong. Historical records disappear out of the archives. The hot new library page skateboards into work—or doesn’t—whenever he feels like it. A simmering feud boils over between two prominent and universally loathed patrons, leaving Meg scrambling to keep the peace.

Then one of the patrons turns up dead in the library conference room. The police say it’s natural causes, but Meg suspects murder—and no librarian worth her reference desk credentials leaves a question unanswered. Enlisting the aid of the library’s mystery book club, and armed with mad research skills, she sets out to prove what really happened.

A Shush Before Dying is the first book of the Meg Booker Librarian Mysteries—a cozy library mystery series set in the 1980s.