OPEN AND CLOSED

About the Book

“Readers who have not yet sampled this quirky and entertaining series should be vehemently encouraged to do so, with all haste.”—Booklist

The fourth DI Don Packham and DC Frank Mitchell mystery.

There’s a body in the library.
The Bath Street public library in Cowden, London, that is. The borough council wants to close it as part of a “rationalization” package. So one autumn night, militant library-lovers enter the building and begin unfurling their banners and bedrolls. The mood is full of hope and solidarity—at least, until a garroted corpse is found sitting in the librarian’s office.

About the Author

Mat Coward lives in Somerset, Britain. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine called him “One of the funniest writers in the history of crime fiction.” As well as the Packham and Mitchell novels, he writes short stories which have been broadcast on BBC Radio, published in scores of anthologies and magazines around the world, and nominated for the Dagger and Edgar awards.