Better Late Than Never

Briar Creek Library is holding its first Amnesty Day for overdue books, and the response is amazing. Books are coming in that haven't seen the library in some time—including a copy of J.D. Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye, last borrowed 20 years before (with a fine of $1,460, if they were counting). Curious about who might have had the book for so long, library director Lindsay learns that the last reader was local high school teacher Candice Whitley, who borrowed the book on the day she was murdered. Pursued by a librarian's passion for solutions, and using her highly honed investigative skills combined with her natural curiosity, Lindsay learns quite a few sinister secrets about the little town she has recently chosen to call home. But what she desperately wants to know is who could possibly have killed Candice, and is the murderer still in town? Narrator Allyson Ryan is an excellent reader; at times a listener could be forgiven for forgetting that there is only one person speaking.