The Library Game by Gigi Pandian (2025)
First let me say I would dearly love to move to the little town where this book takes place. Because it's the operations center for the Secret Stair(case Construction Company. Tempest Raj and her creative industrious crew go about their work of turning people's home into popular public libraries......not just ordinary libraries but mystery libraries that evoke the very books they stock, built with hidden passageways and yes, secret staircases. The kind of place you might bump into Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple.....or Nancy Drew.
I had visions of this town resembling the Vegas strip, except with specialty mystery libraries on every corner instead of casinos.
But Tempest and company run afoul of murder most foul in their newest project at the Grey House. A planned murder mystery play to kick off the grand opening gets derailed when one of the actors kicks off himself. And this murder victim's body has an unnatural habit of disappearing and reappearing.....almost like magic.
No shortage of clues and potential suspects pile up,(including the ghost of the Grey House's owner and library benefactor) but the question is, can Tempest reach that pivotal 'whodunit reveal so the show (and the library) can go on?
A whole bunch of page turning fun's in store for mystery fans here, particularly those who can never gobble up enough of those 'impossible locked room' puzzles. Yes, it's fourth in a series but you can still enjoy it even if you've yet to sample the previous books. My guess is those readers will immediately want to play catch up with Tempest'
I had visions of this town resembling the Vegas strip, except with specialty mystery libraries on every corner instead of casinos.
But Tempest and company run afoul of murder most foul in their newest project at the Grey House. A planned murder mystery play to kick off the grand opening gets derailed when one of the actors kicks off himself. And this murder victim's body has an unnatural habit of disappearing and reappearing.....almost like magic.
No shortage of clues and potential suspects pile up,(including the ghost of the Grey House's owner and library benefactor) but the question is, can Tempest reach that pivotal 'whodunit reveal so the show (and the library) can go on?
A whole bunch of page turning fun's in store for mystery fans here, particularly those who can never gobble up enough of those 'impossible locked room' puzzles. Yes, it's fourth in a series but you can still enjoy it even if you've yet to sample the previous books. My guess is those readers will immediately want to play catch up with Tempest'
4 stars (****).
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