Two Bloggers One Series ~ Fatal First Edition (Library Lovers #14)

This is a series both Barb and I love so it was a no brainer to buddy read this one! Once you see what I have to say go on over and check out her thoughts at Booker T's Farm.

Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train , inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.

But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse—the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully’s room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn’t commit.

I love this series and this one was no exception! This one had me a bit worried at times but I was pretty comfident that the author wouldn't let me down and she didn't. 

This one starts out away from Briar Creek as Lindsey and Sully are at an archival convention and it's here that Lindsey finds a rare book under her seat. This is what will start off everything.

Lindsey takes it to one of the people who were giving a presentation to make sure she wasn't mystaken about the rare item, then it gets handed over the the conference director and then Lindsey thinks all is well, but it isn't.

On the train ride home surrounded by a lot of archivist passengers including the conference director and some other characters who are not big fans of his. So when he ends up dead on the train, the train must stop in Briar Creek where there is a blizzard happeing.

Everyone from the train must stay at the Inn in town but Lindsey and Sully are okay to go home but Sully needs to check on his boat so he goes off that way and then Lindsey finds the book in her bag and this pretty much starts some interesting events that I can't say but I was shocked a few time. 

I don't think it was a very hard mystery to solve or at least to know who was behind things. I didn't know all the details but figuring out whodunit to me was a bit easy, but I still enjoyed the mystery because of some other things that was going on. 

One little fun detail in this book is that the author uses a character from someone elses cozy series and I thought that was fun. Jenn talks about this in the back of the book and how she is friends with Kate Carlisle and asked to use Brooklyn Wrainwright at the conference and because I had read one book from the Bibliophile mysteries I caught this and it was fun. :) 

I love all the charachers in this book and it was so fun being back with everyone and if you haven't tried this series you need too! :) 

5 stars