Strangled in the Stacks: A Booker Falls Mystery

by Kenn Grimes

In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some twenty-eight years earlier, a crime never solved, sets Myrtle off on a quest to uncover the killer's identity. Information she finds results in the trial and conviction of Yvette's boyfriend at the time. But Myrtle is not convinced he is guilty. Further investigation eventually results in Myrtle's life being put in jeopardy by the real killer.

302 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2016

Reviews

[Madge Walls]

"Strangled in the Stacks" is a cozy mystery that introduces Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I.

After taking a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan, Myrtle discovers that her predecessor was murdered in those very library stacks. The case, now 28 years old, has gone very cold.

Myrtle discovers a cache of letters received by the victim prior to her murder. These letters help convict the victim's boyfriend of the time. But Myrtle is not convinced he is guilty. As Myrtle pursues the investigation, she puts her own life in danger.

Myrtle and her fellow boarding house residents are a lively, memorable crew. I wish I could drop by for coffee and cookies!
I've read the other two books in the Booker Falls series and enjoyed them all.

[Nelda Stanley]

Great read. I've read it twice. Had so many characters in it that I had to write them down to keep track of "who's who". Looking forward to reading more of the Booker Falls Mysteries by Kenn Grimes.

[Kaie]

I'm from Michigan, so I love reading books that have my home as a setting. This book was great, I did manage to find out whodunit within the first half but it was great seeing the way the characters put the story together. I'll be continuing this series as I've already ordered the next one.

[Donna]

1st in a cozy mystery series about a young women from New Orleans who returns from France and WW1 to work as sn assistant librarian at a college in Michigan