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Read on Arrival
Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery | Nora Page
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Senior librarian Cleo Watkins takes the wheel of her trusty bookmobile--only to speed right into the middle of a murder plot. For more than forty years, septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins has tried to get patron Dixie Huddleston to return the most overdue volume in Catalpa Springs, Georgia. As that long-dreamt-of day arrives, Cleo and her feline sidekick, Rhett Butler, head out in her school-bus-turned-bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to retrieve the book. But why is Dixie finally ready to relinquish it? Superstitious Dixie says she's seen the signs: Something's coming for her, her end is near, so she's getting her affairs in order. Cleo dismisses Dixie's fears...until she and her gentleman friend, antiquarian bookseller Henry Lafayette, arrive to find Dixie dead, her face frozen in terror. Her old nemesis may have died of fright, as the police suggest, but to Cleo, something doesn't check out. With suspects stacking up, Cleo carefully catalogues the clues as threatening omens set the town on edge. Will the killer turn the final page on someone Cleo loves? Southern manners, sweet tea, and library justice fill the pages ofRead on Arrival, Nora Page's endearing second Bookmobile mystery.
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Best things about this book are
1) the main character is an older woman - I love it every time I read something where the main character isn‘t cis, straight, white, thin, smart, and 24.
2) there‘s a murder to solve, but the real villain is a garish woman who‘s attempting to modernize the local library and get rid of all the books in the process.

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