Murder at the 42nd Street Library

from Kris_Anderson

Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane is a new mystery novel. Raymond Ambler is the curator of the crime fiction collection in the 42nd Street Library in New York that is devoted to research. Ray arrives at work one day to find out that James Donnelly was shot while visiting Harry Larki...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

Ambler is a Librarian working in the Crime Fiction section of the Library. A man comes in to meet w/ the Library Director and is shot dead as he walks in the Director's office. There is no end of suspects, everyone is intertwined with a famous crime novelist.... most all share a dirty secret. Wh...

from bamckay

As a librarian I was really excited to read this book but as a mystery reader not so much. Lehane over use of adjectives make the book seem to just drag. I couldn't get pass the 1st 50 pages before wanting to throw the book. In the author's defense, I like my mysteries to be fast paced and captiv...

from BrianEWilliams

I had high hopes for this book when I started to read it --- the premise of the story was good and I like books set in Manhattan. About a third of the way through it fell off the cliff. Most of the characters are difficult to like (and some are just plain annoying, even for New Yorkers) and it wa...

from readafew

The morning of Adele's mother's funeral, a man is shot and killed in the Library where Adele and Raymond work. Right in front of another coworker, Harry, who was also shot at. The man killed was on his way to visit Harry and Harry claimed he didn't know the details of the visit. Raymond is in cha...