the loveliest librarian

Julia spent the rest of the afternoon at the reference desk. She liked helping people find what they were looking for, and she liked the fact that a library was designed to make finding information easier. No putting a purple book on the shelf by the window just because it looked pretty there. No sticking another tome on the bottom because it had bad energy.

No, in a library, there was a logical plan. Call her weird, but Julia loved the Dewey Decimal System. At one time, she’d considered becoming a cataloger before deciding she preferred working with the public.

Because the Serenity Falls Public Library wasn’t large enough to have a separate readers’ advisory librarian to deal with fiction requests, Julia handled those as well. Which is how she came to be speaking to Mabel about a mystery she was looking for, one she’d seen in a book display the library had a few weeks ago.

“It has a red cover.” Mabel fingered her pink curls as if doing so might prompt her memory. “I do remember that much. And the title had something to do with a place.” [p. 135-136]

Title: Good Girls Do
Creator: Linz, Cathie
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Date: 2006
Type: Text