Death Overdue

Carrie Singleton has nearly run out of patience with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. A job offer changes her plans: she becomes head of programs and events at the town library, a post that comes with a resident ghost.

Her first big event features Al Buckley, a retired homicide detective. He tells the audience he knows who killed Laura Foster, a well-loved part-time library aide who was beaten to death fifteen years earlier. While he asks people to share their memories of Laura, he collapses and dies in front of the room.

The cause is poison, and Carrie blames herself for putting him on the stage. She believes the man who killed Laura all those years ago has struck again, and she sets out to prove it.

This is a cozy-style mystery with a library setting and a supernatural touch. Carrie has help from the ghost, who is friendly and knows a good deal about the building and the town. The tone mixes a cold case with a fresh murder, and the sleuthing centers on the people who gathered to remember Laura.