Read and Buried: An Oakridge Harbor Mystery (Oakridge Harbor Mysteries Book 1) by JT Webster
A rare book goes into the safe at R&C Booksellers on a Thursday afternoon. Friday morning the man who brought it is dead in the stockroom, and the book is gone.
Walter Pruitt asked Jess Hollis to hold it overnight. She photographed it, logged it, and locked the safe. The alley door was closed. She wants that on the record.
Detective Fletcher has a dead man in a locked building and no forced entry. Somebody used a door that does not latch unless you lift the handle a quarter inch, which everybody in the building already knows how to do.
The book was not what it said it was. Jess notices when a thing is out of place. The trouble is the interpretation.
Read and Buried is Book One of the Oakridge Harbor Mysteries, a complete mystery with violence kept off the page.