Librarian of Whitby

Whitby, 1887. Miss Harriet Vane has kept the Pier Road subscription library for eleven years, and in that time she has learned exactly two things about people: what they borrow, and what they don't want anyone to know they've borrowed. When a retired sea captain is found dead in the reading room, the constable calls it apoplexy and closes the matter by noon. But the 1863 harbour survey is missing from its shelf. And the captain was the last to ask for it. Now Harriet is keeping a ledger of her own, and every borrower's name leads somewhere the town would rather she didn't go — to a solicitor, a railway, and a parcel of land that has been bought twice. A cozy Victorian historical murder mystery from the stacks of a seaside library.