The Rhyme's Library — Kristy Tate

Crazy Aunt Charlotte is missing again. Blair Rhyme, Rose Arbor's young librarian, doesn't bother to check Charlotte's regular haunts -- the Veteran's of Foreign Wars lodge, the Four H-Club, or the bins behind Milton's Fish shop â€" because Charlotte is dead. Blair discovered her body amongst the boxes of what-nots and whatevers in the library's basement. Unfortunately, when she returns to the library with the police Charlotte is missing. Again.


Desperate to prove that she doesn't share her aunt's mental illness and that Charlotte really has been murdered, Blair tangles with a former lover, a disturbingly handsome stranger and a wacky cast of Rose Arbor characters.


At first Blair tries to dismiss the skin-pricking sensation of being watched, but as small disturbances grow increasingly threatening, she must confront the enemies, real or imagined, that drove her aunt to madness and death in the Rhyme's Library.

The Rhyme's Library is a 2014 Kindle Book Review semi-finalist.
From a review: In the second book that I have read from this author, she is fast becoming an author for me to watch for in the contemporary mystery genre. The Rhyme's Library is a clever murder mystery, rife with family and small-town secrets and an engaging, intelligent heroine at its center. Blair is cleverly created, a librarian by default, she has a fascination with the "word a day" theory, in fact each chapter starts with a word and its definition; some obscure, some not. When she finds the body of her newly deceased aunt in the basement of her family home, turned library, the coincidences, secrets and suspicious characters just seem to appear in every person she encounters. Stalled or put off by the police, injured, threatened and nearly drowned in several rainstorms, Blair perseveres trying to piece together the puzzle that is her family.