num_pages: 325
description: When her best hope of saving her storm-damaged library is found murdered senior librarian Cleo Watkins hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins wont be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny towns storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile Words on Wheels to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs Georgia.However Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all available books on getting away with murder. Hes no Georgia peach and Cleo wonders if she should worry about his plans. She knows she should when she discovers him bludgeoned and evidence points to her best friend Mary-Rose Garland. Sure of Mary-Roses innocence Cleo applies her librarians sleuthing skills to the case assisted by friends family and the dapper antiquarian bookseller everyone keeps calling her boyfriend. Evidence stacks up but a killer is overdue to strike again. With lives and her library on the line Cleo must shift into high gear to close the book on murder in Better Off Read the charming Bookmobile series debut by Nora Page.
language: English
title: Better Off Read
publisher: Crooked Lane Books