Death on the Books

Name: Death on the Books
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ISBN: 9798892427333

Victoria Gilbert

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Crooked Lane Books
08 September 2026

Crime & Mystery

A sleuthing library director is on the case when a patron drops dead in the tenth installment of Victoria Gilbert's critically acclaimed Blue Ridge Library mysteries.

When a stranger falls over dead in the Taylorsford Public Library,

clutching a crumpled piece of paper inscribed only with the words hen

and sapphire, Library Director Amy Muir must once again investigate. She

soon learns that the man is the personal assistant to Warren Sanderson,

an art collector and dealer who just so happens to be visiting Kurt

Kendrick, the godfather of Amy's twins.

When the autopsy reveals that the library patron was poisoned,

suspicion falls on those who knew him-mainly Sanderson, his

granddaughter Heather, and Kurt. Determined to get to the bottom of the

mystery, Amy digs into the contentious relationships between Kurt and

the Sandersons. But as it turns out, suspects abound, and when Amy's

best friend's boyfriend is implicated, the case becomes even more

complicated.

Amy's research ties the dead man's note to a lost treasure of the

Romanov empire. Then another person falls victim. With the bodies piling

up, Amy knows better than anyone that killers often keep killing until

they're caught, and she'll stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this

tangled mystery.

By: Victoria Gilbert
Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9798892427333
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 08 September 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Raised in a historic small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Victoria Gilbert turned her early obsession with books into a dual career as an author and librarian. Now retired after over thirty years in the library field, she's worked as a reference librarian, research librarian, and university library director. Victoria writes the Blue Ridge Library mystery series, the Booklover's B&B mystery series, the Campus Sleuth mystery series, and the Hunter and Clewe traditional mystery series for Crooked Lane Books. A member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers, Victoria lives in North Carolina.