Fatal First Edition, Jenn McKinlay
Fatal First Edition, Jenn McKinlay
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Fatal First Edition

Author: Jenn McKinlay

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum.

Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.

But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse—the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully’s room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn’t commit.

About Jenn McKinlay

Jenn McKinlay is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several mystery series, including the Good Buy Girls series and the Decoupage Mystery series, which she wrote under the pseudonyms Josie Belle and Lucy Lawrence. A former librarian, she studied English literature and library science at Southern Connecticut State University before moving to Arizona, where she lives in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband’s guitars. For more information, visit her at www.jennmckinlay.com.

About Allyson Ryan

Allyson Ryan is an actress with extensive stage, television, and voiceover experience, including commercials, animation, video games, and promos. The narrator of over eighty audiobooks, she received an Earphones Award for her narration of Kaya McLaren's On the Divinity of Second Chances.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Crossover! Brooklyn Wainright from one of my other fave author’s mystery series briefly visits in Fatal First Edition, the latest Library Lover's Mystery book. What fun! A rare signed first edition of a Patricia Highsmith book (by none other than an uber famous director) shows up, then disappears, i......more

Goodreads review by Mallory

This is book 14 in the Library Lover’s Mystery series and I have to admit it is the first I’ve read, but I thought it worked well as a standalone. I’m sure I would have been more attached to the characters if I had read the prior books, but there was enough explanation that I understood them and it......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

I love this series and always look forward to the next. This lastest in the series for me was a serious mixed bag. There were a lot of fun and clever things as there usually are from Ms McKinlay, an introduction of two of her main characters to two, from one of her good friends, well known series, m......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

4.5 stars I went into this audiobook thinking "it's a Jenn McKinlay book, it's going to be good" and it was! It was so much better than I thought it would be though. Lindsey attends a conference where freaking Brooklyn Wainwright is the speaker! Yeah! The one from the Kate Carliesle books. Lindsey f......more

Goodreads review by Laura

It was a good mystery, but not as good as some in this series….......more


Quotes

Plenty of hair-raising adventures combine with more cerebral pursuits in this enjoyable tale.