Description: In this case from early in Stewart Hoag's career, the newly successful writer revisits his hometown to investigate the murder of a beloved librarian.
Brief description: David Handler is the Edgar Award-winning, critically acclaimed author of several bestselling mystery series. He began his career as a New York City reporter, and wrote his first two novels--Kiddo (1987) and Boss (1988)--about his Los Angeles childhood. In 1988 he published The Man Who Died Laughing, the first of his long-running series of mysteries starring ghostwriter Stuart Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu.
Review Quotes: "Handler is the master of the sly, comedic mystery."--Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone