Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during May 2015 is …
Checked Out by Elaine Viets, a Helen Hawthorne, Dead-End Job Mystery (14th in series)
Publisher: NAL
Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman's books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor — worth millions — was tucked away inside one of those dusty tomes.
To search the stacks, Helen applies for a position as a library volunteer and discovers the library director has a catalog of complaints — from a mischievous calico cat named Paris to the mysterious disappearance of various items that some of the more imaginative staff are attributing to a ghost haunting the building.
While her husband Phil sticks his neck out to find a missing necklace, Helen is on her own with no one to lend her a hand. When a dead body turns up in a parking lot, it appears someone is willing to go to any lengths to keep the treasure in the library quiet. Now Helen is bound and determined to find the killer as well as the painting — before she's taken out of circulation herself.
— Checked Out by Elaine Viets
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for May 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of May 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
Thanks for featuring CHECKED OUT. I had so much fun writing about the inner workings of a library.
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