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  • Published: 7 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781639104833
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $65.00

Overdue or Die





Carrie Singleton has a wedding to plan, a killer to catch, and a conspiracy to uncover in this charming seventh novel of Agatha Award-nominee Allison Brook’s Haunted Library mysteries.

Carrie Singleton has a wedding to plan, a killer to catch, and a conspiracy to uncover in this charming seventh novel of Agatha Award-nominee Allison Brook’s Haunted Library mysteries.

Carrie Singleton has more than her fair share on her plate: her job at the Clover Ridge Library, preparing for her wedding to Dylan Avery, and hoping that the local art gallery doesn’t steal away one of her part-time employees. Her fiancé Dylan accompanies her to the beautiful home of Victor Zalinka—art collector and successful businessman—to select paintings for an art show at the library. While Carrie muses that Victor's home would be the perfect wedding venue, Dylan spots a forgery among the paintings in Victor's collection.

Then Martha Mallory is found murdered in her art gallery. With the assistance of Evelyn, the library ghost; the resident cat, Smoky Joe; and the office manager of Dylan’s private investigation company, Carrie comes up with a suspect list long enough to rival the size of an encyclopedia. During her investigation, Carrie stumbles across a terrible truth: Martha’s murder was part of something far bigger and more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. And it all leads back to the art gallery.

How far will Carrie go to find the killer and uncover the truth? If the killer finds her first—will Carrie finally be taken out of circulation?

  • Published: 7 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781639104833
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $65.00

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Praise for Overdue or Die

Praise for the Haunted Library Mysteries:
"Brook weaves together a spunky protagonist, a quaint setting, and a ghost with a mind of her own to create a book that cozy readers will be dying to check out."
—Lucy Arlington, New York Times bestselling author

“All my favorite cozy things.”
—Diane A.S. Stuckart, New York Times bestselling author

"A charming cozy town, a spunky heroine and a mystery that grabs you from page one.”
—Peg Cochran, national bestselling author of Dead and Berried

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