Excellent contemporary mystery, and lots of bonus points for starring a librarian! Herchenroether explores the lives of the murdered without dwelling on or glorifying the murder or killer. I could hardly put it down and I hope this is the start of a genealogist-librarian crime solving series.

I also appreciated Herchenroether’s balance of technology, paper research, and logic to solve crimes.

I read a galley and so this may change before publication, but there were some distracting changes of tense in the ghost’s sections. I can understand why a ghost might struggle with temporality, but this human reader was a tad confused