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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Case of the Missing Books, by Ian Sansom



This feels almost ridiculously meta, but here it is.

I'm a librarian who likes to read mysteries, writing about a book about a librarian who likes to read mysteries whose work as a librarian is interrupted by the disappearance of an entire library's collection of books.

As wildly geeky as it sounds, this was fun, funny, and really different a mystery.

Israel Armstrong made such a nice change in protagonists, (geeky out-of-shape career-challenged male), and it's rare (for me at least) to read a laugh-out-loud book set in Northern Ireland, and England the minister was a dream of a character, with his brothers Scotland and Wales.

Great fun.

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