A missing manuscript, a missing librarian, and a desperately ill department head are all concerning aspects of this story. The most concerning of all, however, was that Liesl Weiss had to abort her sabbatical in order to sift through it all. And of course, through it all she is berated and undermined by the pompous University president.
Things in this novel that were absolutely believable: The University President asks Liesl to keep quiet about the missing books, and the missing librarian (no need for bad press, and what would the donor's think?); the male library director could count on his (mostly) female staff to cover for him, while he always got the credit; when a woman is put in charge of the library she is constantly questioned by those she supervises who also point out that the previous (male) director did not do it that way.
This was road-trip listening for our recent mid-west adventure. While I don't typically enjoy mysteries, this one eventually grew on me, although when it started neither my husband nor I thought that we would be especially interested.
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