Crafts and Life

When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day—no fines for late returns—the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check in and sort the stacks of books.
 
But one tardy tome catches her attention—a copy of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, twenty years past due. When Lindsey looks up the borrower, she’s shocked to discover it was a murdered teacher named Candice Whitley, whose killer was never found.
 
Candice checked out the novel on the day she was murdered. Now Lindsey wonders if it could provide a clue to the decades-old cold case. No one noticed who brought the book back in, but could it be Candice’s killer? Lindsey is determined to catch the culprit one way or another, because justice for Candice Whitley is long overdue…

Lindsey and her library team are holding an Amnesty day (much to the disgust of Ms Cole!) with a chart up for the most damaged, the longest out etc.  New staff member Paula is pleased to find a copy of The Catcher in the Rye which is twenty years overdue, but when Ms Cole hears about it she start hyperventilating and eventually manages to tell Lindsey that the book was taken out by a murdered teacher, and it turns out it was taken out the day she died.

Lindsey, Robbie and Emma need to work out if it was the murderer who returned it and what happened to Candice Whitley on that fateful day.