When her brother, Jack, a world-traveling consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris gets mixed up in a strange case involving South American business dealings and an exotic woman.

When library director Lindsey Norris arrives at the Dorchester family’s estate to collect books left to the library, she instead finds a skeleton linked to a missing person’s case from 1989, and sets out to solve this mystery and throw the book at a killer who thought they got away with murder.

Attending a conference in Chicago, library directory Lindsey Norris discovers under her chair a rare, first edition book inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock and tied to a murder.