num_pages: 329
description: Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective Al Buckley who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura he suddenly keels over and dies. The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie feels responsible for having surged forward with the program despite pushback from her director. Driven by guilt Carrie's determined to discover who murdered the detective convinced it's the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie she has a friendly knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Laura's case disturbing secrets come to light and with each step Carrie takes she gets closer to ending up like Al. Now it's due or die for Carrie in Death Overdue the delightful first in a new cozy series by Allison Brook.
language: English
title: Death Overdue
publisher: Crooked Lane Books