Twelve Angry Librarians

By: Miranda James

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's Summary

Charlie Harris is stressed out. The Southern Academic Libraries Association is holding this year's annual meeting at Athena College. Since Charlie is the interim library director, he must deliver the welcome speech to all the visiting librarians. And as if that weren't bad enough, the keynote address will be delivered by Charlie's old nemesis from library school.

It's been 30 years since Charlie has seen Gavin Fong, and he's still an insufferable know-it-all capable of getting under everyone's skin. In his keynote, Gavin puts forth a most unpopular opinion: that degreed librarians will be obsolete in the academic libraries of the future. So when Gavin drops dead, no one seems too upset...but Charlie, who was seen having a heated argument with Gavin the day before, has jumped to the top of the suspect list. Now Charlie and Diesel must check out every clue to refine their search for the real killer among them before the next book Charlie reads comes from a prison library....

©2017 Dean James (P)2017 Tantor

Another great addition

Once again, Miranda James has written another great installment to this series. The characters continue to grow and her stories are original. As always, Erin Bennett's narration is spot on. I highly recommend this book and the entire Cat in the Stacks series.

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Wonderful book production problems

This book is another wonderful installment in this series and lovers of this authors work will not be disappointed. Potential buyers should be aware that this recording has production problems including skips. It is clear that these production problems are not the fault of the wonderful narrator who does a great job with this series. Even with the poor production in the audio version of this book I would still highly recommend it. Those that enjoy Charlie and his adorable cat diesel and the mischief they both get into will enjoy this book.

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Something is missing

I enjoy this series; however it appears there was a problem with this recording. It appears there is 1 to 2pages missing from chapter 27 and 1 page missing from the last chapter. Randy's broken arm just shows up. In the last chapter, it jumps from night to the next day with no explanation.

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Thrilling

I enjoy Charlie Harris and his Maine coon cat. Charlie his detecting. Marvelous book. Looking forward to reading the next book.

Librarians, Grandbabies, Murder and LOVE

The eighth in the Cat in the Stacks mysteries finds Charlie and Diesel busy getting ready for the Librarians’ Conference at Athena College. Since filling the position of interim director, Charlie has assumed a variety of duties, including delivering the welcome speech to the group of visiting librarians. The keynote speaker is Gavin Fong, an old classmate from library school, who has made more enemies than friends over the years. He has also applied for the permanent director’s position that Charlie is now filling at the library at Athena College. Having jumped from job to job for some 30 years, Charlie is dismayed at the prospect of the college considering Gavin Fong for the position. But he doesn’t have to worry about it long. Gavin drops dead while delivering his speech, in front of all the guests, after taking a sip of water from his water bottle. Since Charlie and Gavin had a public spat, which came to blows earlier (provoked by Gavin), Charlie is the first suspect in the murder. This book in the series is a lot of fun. Charlie has to decide whether he wants to come out of retirement to take the full-time position of director of the college library, plus both of his kids are now expecting babies. About to become a grandfather for the first time, he relishes the thought of bouncing grandbabies on his knee. But when daughter, Laura, tells her dad that her husband has been offered a job out of state, Charlie is filled with anxiety . . . the kind that any father and grandfather would experience. Wisely, Charlie keeps mum about his feelings, supporting whatever decision the couple have to make, and gets busy investigating the murder of Gavin Fong. Charlie’s relationship with his long-time friend, Helen Louise, gets closer. Very enjoyable listen, and excellent ending.

ALWAYS A PLEASURE

The writing, the narrator once again provided a great experience. I look forward to many more hours and books from this author, and chirps from Diesel.

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Love Library Cats

Amanda James (or shall I say Diesel & Charlie) took me away from daily stresses.

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I adore this series

Any additional comments?

I have all of the books in this series and have listened to them more than once. I love Charlie and Diesel and the other quirky characters in the book. I anxiously wait for each new book to come out. It is just too far in between, but I listen to the prior ones again to get me by until the next one.

When I started the first book, I thought it was strange for a female to be narrating a book with a male primary character, but she does an excellent job with all the voices and I would now have trouble listening to the books with anyone else narrating.

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good

I have read the whole series of this author. First time listening. Quick listen and overall good

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Excellent addition to the series!

Charlie has been acting director of the library at Athena College, which is hosting a librarian conference, when he sees that the keynote speaker at this conference is a former classmate, someone he had once punched over the man's coming onto Charlie's wife! History repeats itself when the odious Gavin Fong insults Charlie and then takes a swing at him three times before Charlie hits him once.

The next day Gavin goes to give his speech when he dies of cyanide poisoning when he takes a drink from his water bottle. As the man who had supposedly almost put Gavin in the hospital by beating him up, as the rumor mill puts it, Charlie faces a lot of suspicion of his guilt. But he soon learns that Gavin has been so terrible to everyone he encounters that the list of who liked the man is down to one and the list of enemies pages long. But Charlie narrows down his suspect list to a dozen people who attended a party thrown by Gavin and who might have had the opportunity to poison the water.

This book was a whole lot of fun and lived up to the same high quality of the previous books in the series. The plot was well-planned and the conclusion creative. My one disappointment was how little we got to see of Charlie's family and close friends.

The narration was well done, even though the book is narrated by Charlie and the audio version by Erin Bennett. However, she has proven to be an effective choice. I really like the job she does in this book.

in sum, I really liked listening to this book, and it was well worth its purchase!

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