Booking for trouble / Jenn McKinlay.

By:

McKinlay, Jenn [author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780593955505

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Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Booking for troubleDDC classification:

813/.6 23/eng/20260213

LOC classification:

PS3612.A948 B65 2026

Summary: "It's all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot. Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which library director Lindsey Norris visits with her new book-boat, inspired by the bookmobiles she's seen traveling across the country. Nothing, not even the infamous feud between the families who own the Split Islands, can stop Lindsey from getting books into the hands of readers. But when Lindsey and her boat captain husband, Mike Sullivan, discover a body on the rocky outcropping of one of the islands, Lindsey's new library venture quickly becomes a murder investigation. At news of the crime, hostilities between the two families are reignited. Long buried secrets are revealed, tensions spark, and suspects abound. As Lindsey navigates treacherous waters (both literal and metaphorical), she must use her research skills and community ties to solve the murder and bring peace to the islands before her book-boat dreams are sunk"--Provided by publisher.

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC MCKINLAY	Checked out	03/17/2026	36748002642306

Total holds: 3

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It's all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot .

Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which library director Lindsey Norris visits with her new book-boat, inspired by the bookmobiles she's seen traveling across the country. Nothing, not even the infamous feud between the families who own the Split Islands, can stop Lindsey from getting books into the hands of readers. But when Lindsey and her boat captain husband, Mike Sullivan, discover a body on the rocky outcropping of one of the islands, Lindsey's new library venture quickly becomes a murder investigation.

At news of the crime, hostilities between the two families are reignited. Long buried secrets are revealed, tensions spark, and suspects abound. As Lindsey navigates treacherous waters (both literal and metaphorical), she must use her research skills and community ties to solve the murder and bring peace to the islands before her book-boat dreams are sunk.

"It's all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot. Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which library director Lindsey Norris visits with her new book-boat, inspired by the bookmobiles she's seen traveling across the country. Nothing, not even the infamous feud between the families who own the Split Islands, can stop Lindsey from getting books into the hands of readers. But when Lindsey and her boat captain husband, Mike Sullivan, discover a body on the rocky outcropping of one of the islands, Lindsey's new library venture quickly becomes a murder investigation. At news of the crime, hostilities between the two families are reignited. Long buried secrets are revealed, tensions spark, and suspects abound. As Lindsey navigates treacherous waters (both literal and metaphorical), she must use her research skills and community ties to solve the murder and bring peace to the islands before her book-boat dreams are sunk"--Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

A Connecticut woman juggles her day job as a library director with solving crimes. Lindsey Norris Sullivan must fight to keep the library open in her Connecticut town of Briar Creek on the shore of Long Island Sound. Her nemesis, Gideon Trask, is an obnoxious town councilman who wants to get rid of the library to lower taxes. So Lindsey and her staff come up with the idea of a book boat to serve the population of the nearby islands, creating more interest in the library. Lindsey's husband, Mike "Sully" Sullivan, is just the one to help--he's a boat captain. Needing a patron to fund the book boat, Lindsey enlists the services of her friend Robbie Vine, a famous actor. He sets up a meeting with the membership committee of The Club, an exclusive country club on nearby King's Island, which is desperate to have him join. Dressing Lindsey in the designer clothes he buys for his girlfriend, Chief of Police Emma Plewicki, Robbie brings her to meet Mallory Masterson, Leslie Stone, Tina Baldwin, and Harper Winslow, who agree to help fund the boat. On its first run, the boat stops at Split Island, home of the Capshaws and Montgomerys, whose long-standing feud has been supercharged by the elopement of artist Ariel Montgomery's son and Gwen Capshaw's daughter. On a second trip, Lindsey and Sully find Gwen stabbed to death with a palette knife. Of course Ariel's a suspect, but Lindsey doesn't believe she did it, and when they find Club member Leslie Stone killed the same way, it looks like Ariel's being framed. Lindsey thinks the answer lurks within The Club and, with Robbie's help, uncovers plenty of motives. An amusing look at the excesses of the rich and infamous, for whom nothing is enough and murder is a lifestyle perk. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.