Unbound (Booklover's Mysteries)
Alex Plumtree, a rare book collector, runs the family publishing business in London (see Unsolicited, St. Martin's, 1994). His firm's newest fiction title, based by author Angela Mayfield on her dissertation, claims that Bloomsbury writer Marcus Stonecypher coded treasonous messages in his works. Once word of the book leaks out, disturbing events occur: threats, thefts, surveillance, sabotage, and attempted murder. Alex and Angela suspect an elite group of book collectors but cannot figure out why they feel threatened by the Stonecypher code. Kaewert's finely crafted prose creates a heady mix of suspense, romance, and mystery?all within a rarefied world of book collecting and restoration. Although published only in paper, this belongs in all fiction collections.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.