Librarians of Jesus Creek and elsewhere

All The Crazy Winters

During the early stages of research for the second Jesus Creek mystery, All The Crazy Winters, I asked my local librarians what there might be in a library that could serve as a murder weapon. And all of them started shouting out ideas: “A heavy book!” “This chair!” “The spindle!” And so forth.

Mind you, they did not take time to consider it; they answered immediately, almost as if they’d been thinking of how to commit murder all along.

There was a time when I’d ha...