Julia Schmidt reckons the suburban library where she works is the most boring place on earth. When a hobo dies in an armchair, everyone thinks he died of natural causes. They are wrong and Julia is soon playing cat-and-mouse with a killer while trying to recover a priceless library book. An Australian comic crime novel with an endearing amateur sleuth.

Peter Menadue was a non-prizewinning journalist before studying law at the University of Sydney and Oxford University. He has worked as a barrister in Sydney for more than 20 years. He has written numerous novels under his own name and several courtroom novels under the pen name 'Mark Dryden'.