This book follows Brooklyn Wainwright whose helping her friend Genevieve Taylor work through her father's collection of books and make sense of it. She takes home some books that Genevieve wants to have fixed up. When she gets home she meets Crane a friend of her fiancee Derek.

When they go to the Covington Library for a bird exhibit Brooklyn meets Jared Mulrooney who need Brooklyn to fix his book next thing Brooklyn knows is he is dead. After several attempted break ins at her apartment her parents arrive and have a friend of theirs spend the night with them only to wind up dead the next day. Who is going around killing people and why? What is the fascination with Brooklyn's apartment? What book are they after?


This is a cute little series about book binder extraordinaire Brooklyn as she solves mysteries along with repairing books. She has dealt with her share of mysteries having to do with books everytime and the length people go to swipe a book. Even so far as to murder for a book!