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I like this series and I liked this plot, but it felt empty at the end, like it was not summed up enough. I had my own questions about motive that weren't answered. But I look forward to the new book. And more Diesel as well!
SPOILER ALERT!
Yancy. An agent for Mrs C who travels from NY, only to sit and play cards? If Eugene's aim was to portray Mrs C to sell the manuscripts, wouldn't Yancy have found out, after all she was her agent? Murder seems a bit extreme just to get a scrapbook photo from a movie magazine which would have maybe given away Eugene's impersonation. Unsure why he impersonated her anyway, if it was to sell around Mrs C's mental state, Duffy and Betts wound up making arrangements to buy the manuscripts so Mrs C's mentality couldn't have been an issue. The ending just seemed rushed in this book, I would have liked more explanations of motive, and less gossip about another nice-bodied, closeted man in town, which seemed irrelevant. The Yancy Thigpen thing seemed to have no purpose either.


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The Silence of the Library Cat in the Stacks Mystery Miranda James Books Reviews

Charlie Harris is more than happy to help with the Athena Public Library’s display for National Library Week which includes a tribute to author Electra Barnes Cartwright, creator of the Veronica Thane Girl Detective series. Not only did he grow up reading the Veronica Thane books, he has a large collection of them thanks to his late aunt. All involved are thrilled when they discover Mrs. Cartwright is still alive and, despite her advanced age, is willing to make an appearance at the exhibit. Fans of the Veronica Thane series start popping up before the exhibit even starts and some of them are desperate to meet Mrs. Cartwright – some are even desperate enough to commit murder.

“The Silence of the Library” is the nicely done fifth book in Miranda James’s Cat in the Stacks cozy mystery series (Miranda James is the pseudonym of author Dean James). I’ve come to love Charlie and Diesel, his overweight but very lovable Maine Coon cat. What I liked most about this book is the tribute to Girl Detectives – Veronica Thane is a version of Nancy Drew and James includes a Veronica Thane book within the main mystery that delightfully captures the language of early Girl Detective books (Veronica drives a roadster and refers to her friends as chums). Veronica was created just for this book but her character makes me want to dig out my own Nancy Drew books and reread them. James also does a neat job of tying together the mystery Veronica is trying to solve with the mystery Charlie is trying to solve. As for the mystery Charlie is trying to solve, I did figure out a major plot point halfway through the book but that added to the fun as I watched James cleverly put the plot together.

“The Silence of the Library” is another winning cozy mystery by Miranda James.
Thoroughly enjoyed this latest read from Miranda James. TWO reads, in fact since there is a book within a book and it's quite fascinating. I love Ms. James' characters, especially Diesel the cat and Charlie Harris, the librarian and all their friends at the Athena library. The characters are warm and friendly and they all love Diesel. It's nice to just sit and read something nice and cozy without all the violence and sex. Of course, I'm not saying there is no violence because there is but it's not so "in your face" as many mysteries are.

The Athena public library has decided to have an exhibit of girl mystery novels and Teresa Farmer, the head of the library, has discovered that the writer of the "Veronica Thane" mysteries is still alive and living near Athena. So she recruits Charlie to go with her to talk with Electra Barnes Cartwright and talk her into speaking at the exhibit. When it is announced in the library newsletter that Mrs. Cartwright will be at the exhibit, in person, crazy people begin arriving in Athena. Collectors who will do anything for EBC's autograph begin showing up in Athena and causing dismay on the part of the citizens. It's all fun and games until one of the collectors is murdered, a book agent disappears and documents are stolen from the home of the person who was murdered.

The story is well-written and keeps you guessing until the end. The "outsiders" are all strange, eccentric and nutty and reading about them moves the story along nicely. I also like the interaction between Charlie and his two grown children. It's nice that parents and their children get along in a story, which is almost never the case in these types of books. This is an easy, nice, quiet read that keeps you on the edge of you seat and has a dynamite, surprising ending.

So, a terrific story(ies) and I highly recommend it, especially while trying to survive this awful winter we're having.
Oh shoot me the next time I leave 14 books to be reviewed in a stack. Diesel, my favorite Maine Coon cat and his person, Charlie a volunteer at the Athena, MS library are looking forward to National Library Week. The excitement is building when a celebrated author who many had thought had long passed on, is discovered to be very much alive, perhaps..and all sorts of savory and unsavory characters are coming out of the woodwork to get the publishing rights to some of her unpublished manuscripts. Tie that together with the late Aunt Dottie's collection of said Author's Veronica Thane, girl detective works, that never got the clamor that the Nancy Drew mystery books that so many of us cut our teeth on and whet our appetites for more, an overprotective daughter and questionable nephew and oh my...Charlie's head as well as mine is spinning..alas something is 'rotten in Athena' and perhaps not all is as it should be but leave it to Charlie and Diesel to unravel what is real and what isn't...enjoy and I for one, a am on to the next!
I like this series and I liked this plot, but it felt empty at the end, like it was not summed up enough. I had my own questions about motive that weren't answered. But I look forward to the new book. And more Diesel as well!
SPOILER ALERT!
Yancy. An agent for Mrs C who travels from NY, only to sit and play cards? If Eugene's aim was to portray Mrs C to sell the manuscripts, wouldn't Yancy have found out, after all she was her agent? Murder seems a bit extreme just to get a scrapbook photo from a movie magazine which would have maybe given away Eugene's impersonation. Unsure why he impersonated her anyway, if it was to sell around Mrs C's mental state, Duffy and Betts wound up making arrangements to buy the manuscripts so Mrs C's mentality couldn't have been an issue. The ending just seemed rushed in this book, I would have liked more explanations of motive, and less gossip about another nice-bodied, closeted man in town, which seemed irrelevant. The Yancy Thigpen thing seemed to have no purpose either.