Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25727-2
Humor and plenty of Southern charm buoy James’s fifth Cat in the Stacks mystery (after 2012’s File M for Murder). At the annual fundraising gala for the Friends of the Library, attended by the cream of Athena, Miss., society and held at the Ducote...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25729-6
In James’s diverting sixth cozy featuring librarian Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel (after 2014’s The Silence of the Library), Mayor Lucinda Long donates a set of Civil War–era family diaries to the archives of Athena College in Athena,
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-27776-8
James’s engaging eighth Cat in the Stacks mystery (after 2016’s No Cats Allowed) finds affable Charlie Harris, the interim director of the Athena College library in Athena, Miss., looking forward to chairing a discussion panel and giving a short...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-4252-7778-2
The endearing relationship between widower Charlie Harris and his Maine coon cat, Diesel, lifts James’s lightweight ninth Cat in the Stacks mystery (after 2017’s Twelve Angry Librarians). While volunteering at the public library in Athens, Miss.,...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49109-1
Questions abound in James’s gripping 10th Cat in the Stacks mystery (after Claws for Concern). Widowed librarian Charlie Harris isn’t looking forward to the Christmas open house his flirtatious new neighbor, Gerry Albritton, has invited him to...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49112-1
James’s entertaining 11th Cats in the Stacks mystery (after 2018’s Six Cats a Slayin’) finds Athena, Miss., librarian Charlie Harris auditing a history course taught by movie-star-handsome professor Carey Warriner at the local college. After the...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49115-2
After odious Hollywood actor Luke Lombardi is fatally poisoned during a college play in Athena, Miss., there’s no shortage of suspects in James’s delightful 12th Cat in the Stacks mystery (after 2019’s The Pawful Truth). Everybody in Athena,...
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49118-3
James’s enjoyable 13th mystery starring rare books librarian Charlie Harris (after Careless Whiskers) takes Charlie from Athena, Miss., to Asheville, N.C., along with Charlie’s fiancée, bistro owner Helen Louise Brady, and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel,
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Miranda James. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-19946-6
In James’s excellent 14th Cat in the Stacks mystery (after 2020’s Cat Me If You Can), librarian Charlie Harris is surprised to find himself the owner of his grandfather Robert Harris’s farmhouse in Athena, Miss. Robert died in a nursing home over 40
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