The Plot and the Pendulum

Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek,and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Killer Research. Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester familyΓÇÖs vast book collection. Howeverwhen Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the booksthings take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passageleading to a room where a skeleton is foundclutching an old copy of The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Lindsey does a quick check of missing personsusing the distinctive eighties-era clothing worn by the deceased to determine a time frameand discovers that Briar Creek has an unsolved missing person case from 1989. A runaway bride went missing just weeks after her wedding. No suspects were ever arrested and the cold case remains unsolved. Lindsey and the crafternoon crew decide that justice is overdue and set about solving the old murder mysteryusing some novel ideas to crack the case.