ppcfransen 's review for:

Buried in the Stacks by Allison Brook
2.0

I have no idea what either the title or the cover of the book have to do with the actual story. The murder victim was cremated and there's no mention anywhere of books flying all over the place.

The narrative of this story is pretty detailed, so if it wasn't mentioned, it didn't happen.

Carrie Singleton has a few problems on her hands. She's made Sunshine representative, meaning she has to show the employer and co-workers care when an employee is taken ill. There are homeless people hanging out at the library because they have no place else to go, and some of them are causing trouble. Then Dorothy Hawkins, a co-worker no one really liked, first makes a nasty fall and when she returns to work she's driven off the road and killed.

Carrie has some experience in solving crimes and the library's ghost in residence was Dorothy's aunt, so Carrie decides to do some snooping. She's warned off from this by her friend the cop, her boyfriend the investigator and another friend the lawyer. And some unknown person tries to intimidate her too.

I liked this story at the start, because it was well written and not too simplistic. But later on, the details and the repetitiveness of some statements got to me. Plus, the story lacked focus on the murder mystery. None of the characters was ever seriously considered a murder suspect.

In the end I was left feeling mwah about the book.

I read an ARC through Netgalley.