Settling into her position at the First Edition Library in Middlebank House, Hayley Burke is preparing for an exhibition and decides, against her better judgement, to hire her difficult former boss, Oona Atherton, to help with the planning. As they search for a priceless book that may be somewhere in the library, Oona winds up dead at the bottom of the stairs. Did her discovery of the rare book get her killed or was it some angry shadow from her past? In this sequel to The Bodies in the Library, Hayley must read between the lines to catch a malicious murderer.