num_pages: 336
description: Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature’s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road. Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he’s Jewish; he’s a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he’s just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library’s been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library.There’s nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?Israel wants answers…
language: English
title: The Case of the Missing Books
titlecomplete: The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery, #1)
characters: Israel Armstrong
genres: Books About Books, Crime, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Adult Fiction, Humor, Ireland, Mystery
ratings_count: 3644
places: Northern Ireland
series: Mobile Library Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel
publisher: Harper Perennial