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Leah Dobrinska presents Book 1 in the Larkspur Library Mystery series.

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When in doubt, go to the library . . . and solve the murder mystery!

Greta Plank, library director in the small, lakeside town of Larkspur, Wisconsin, prefers her rose-tinted glasses extra rosy, thank you very much. It's how she copes with the hard stuff in life . . . like her sister's death and her ex-boyfriend's deception. But Greta's cheery resolve takes a hit when she stumbles upon a dead body on her way home from work. What she assumes is a terrible accident Greta soon learns is something more sinister, and to make matters worse, a new-to-town detective cites her as not only his primary source for the case, but his top suspect.

Greta decides to do some off-the-books clue cataloging of her own. With the help of her fellow librarians and her lawyer mom, Greta flips through the pages of the murder, uncovering details about Larkspur's real estate market and the deceased's rare book collection as she tries to understand why anyone would have authored his death.

With friends and neighbors stacking up as both victims and suspects, Greta must cross reference the facts and put a hold on her idyllic worldview if she wants to get the full story without paying the fine of her life.

"[Summers] infuses her performance with a lot of emotion by changing pitch, elongating words, and using pauses. The narrator adjusts her performance for each character’s dialogue, deepening her voice somewhat for males and adding some accents." —That's What I'm Talking About

Death Checked Out


Author Leah Dobrinska

Narrated by Eliza Summers

Publication date May 9, 2023

Running time 10 hrs

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