Liesl Weiss is practically counting the days to retirement when her boss in the rare books department at a university library in Toronto has a stroke and she is made acting director. This doesn't seem like a bad way to end one's career until a rare and valuable book supposedly in the office safe turns out not to be there. Then another rare book is found to be a forgery. And to top it off, a member of her staff disappears.
Liesl wants to call the police, but the university president and her library colleagues caution against doing anything that will discourage wealthy donors from contributing more money to purchase more rare books. Thus she herself must play detective.
Readers may beat Liesl to the solution, unless they drink as much as she does, but that doesn't mean the novel fails to entertain.
Jurczyk, as you might expect, is herself a Toronto librarian.
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