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Mystery review: Death Overdue

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  Title:  Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery   (Cozy Mystery; 1st in Series) Author: Allison Brook Publisher: Crooked Lane Books (October 10, 2017). Hardcover: 336 pages ISBN-13: 978-1683313861 E-Book ASIN: B06XW3MGZC Source: Electronic ARC through Great Escapes Free Book Tours Publisher's Blurb:  Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she’s offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies. The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie feels responsible for having surged forward with the program despite pushback from he