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Murder Off the Page

by Con Lehane
Wayne Mitchell
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A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off on a murder investigation, one that he pursues reluctantly until a second murder upends the world as he knows it. The second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's—and the prime suspect is McNulty himself. As Ambler pursues his investigation, he discovers that the murdered woman had a double life. Her intermittent visits to the city—a whirlwind of reckless drinking and illicit liaisons with men she met in the cocktail lounges—had their counterpart in suburban Fairfield County Connecticut where, as Dr. Sandra Dean, she practiced dermatology and lived in a gated community with a doting husband and a young daughter. While Ambler looks into the past of Dr. Sandra Dean to understand the murder of Shannon Darling in the present, NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove investigates the men in Shannon Darling's life. She might have been murdered because she frustrated the wrong man. It could have been a jealous wife. In fact, any number of people might have murdered Shannon Darling. Or, as Ambler suspects, did someone murder Dr. Sandra Dean? Yet, no matter which way he turns, McNulty emerges as a suspect. Ambler's dilemma seems insurmountable: Should he keep searching for the truth behind the murders if the deeper he probes, the more evidence he finds that points to the morally rumpled bartender as a murderer?

  • Creators

  • Series

    42nd Street Library Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 19, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666557282
      • File size: 263412 KB
      • Duration: 09:08:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 2, 2019
      Lehane’s complicated third 42nd Street Library mystery (after 2017’s Murder in the Manuscript Room) opens with Raymond Ambler, curator of the Manhattan library’s crime fiction collection, helping Shannon Darling research the personal papers of mystery writer Jayne Galloway. Shannon seems like a sad and vulnerable woman, so Ray is taken aback when she disappears with Ray’s bartender and sometime actor friend, Brian McNulty (the star of Lehane’s other series), after a man is found dead in her hotel room. When Shannon herself is murdered, Brian becomes the prime suspect in both deaths. Determined to help clear Brian, Ray and his fellow librarian and secret love Adele Morgan discover that Shannon was actually Sandra Dean, mother to a six-year-old daughter and wife of a wealthy and influential husband. Ray’s worries and personal problems muddle the plot rather than add depth to the story. The atmospheric setting compensates in part. Those who love New York City and libraries will be rewarded. Agent: Alice Martell, Martell Agency.

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