#setting: library

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Library Lover's Mysteries

Welcome to a library where the mysteries refuse to stay in the fiction section...

Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey's friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children's book, but Beth's boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he's found murdered - and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast - before they throw the book at the wrong person.

Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cupcake Bakery Mysteries comes the start of a s...

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Haunted Library Mysteries

It's due or die for Carrie ...

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 her director. Driven by guilt, Carrie's determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it's the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Laura's case, disturbing secrets come to light and with each step Carrie takes, she gets closer to ending up like Al.

Death Overdue by Allison Brook

The delightful first installment in The Haunted Library Mysteries, featuring "ghosts, libraries, ...

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Beloved Bookroom Mysteries

When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernized library, she discovers that protecting the printed word is harder than she'd ever imagined. In fact, it's murder.

Trudell Becket, known to her friends as Tru, finds herself in a bind when her library in lovely Cypress, South Carolina, is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless "technological center." A library with no books breaks Tru's book-loving heart so she decides to rescue hundreds of beloved tomes slated for the town dump. Under the cover of darkness, Tru, along with her best friends - coffee shop owner Tori Green and mysterious bestselling author Flossie Finnegan-Baker--set up a secret bookroom in the library's basement and prepare to open it to their most loyal, trustworthy patrons.

But as Tru and her crew are putting the finishing touches on their new book room, the town manager, who was behind the big push for the library's transformation, is crushed by an overturned shelf of DVDs. Tru becomes the prime suspect as she hadn't hid the fact that she hated having all of those wonderful books replaced by tablets and computers. But if she gives the police her alibi, she'll have to explain about the secret book room and risk losing the books.

Tru knows she's in a heap of trouble, and it doesn't help that the officer in charge of the case is her old crush from high school, who broke her teenaged heart. To keep herself out of jail and her beloved bookroom up and running, Tru--with the help of Tori, Flossie, and a brown tabby stray cat named Dewey Decimal--decides to investigate. And faster than you can say "Shhhh " Tru quickly finds herself on the same page with a killer who would love to write her final chapter. . . .

The Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James

When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernize...

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Bookmobile Cat Mysteries

With the help of her rescue cat, Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based in the resort town of Chilson, Michigan. But she'd better keep both hands on the wheel, because it's going to be a bumpy ride...

Eddie followed Minnie home one day, and now she can't seem to shake the furry little shadow. But in spite of her efforts to contain her new pal, the tabby sneaks out and trails her all the way to the bookmobile on its maiden voyage. Before she knows it, her slinky stowaway becomes her cat co-pilot.

Minnie and Eddie's first day visiting readers around the county seems to pass without trouble - until Eddie darts outside at the last stop and leads her to the body of a local man who's reached his final chapter. 

Initially, Minnie is ready to let the police handle this case, but Eddie seems to smell a rat. Together, they'll work to find the killer - because a good librarian always knows when justice is overdue. 

Lending a Paw by Laurie Cass

With the help of her rescue cat, Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based i...

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Lighthouse Library Mysteries

For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father's law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite. 

Calling on her aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun - and some confections from her cousin Josie's bakery - will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island. 

Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery - and she's not so sure there's going to be a happy ending...

By Book or by Crook by Eva Gates

Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her...

[merlinfic]

Any library sexy times??? (I clearly need to go out more, I'm missing the idea of studying at the library lol) Thank you for everything you do every single day for all of us :)

Here you go!

Due Dates and Derring-Do 

How to Find a Book (or How to Shut Merlin Up) 

The Stacks (Best Place for Sex, Even if They Don't Know)

And you’re going to want this ask!

[merlinfic]

Hello there! As always I'm so glad I have someone to ask this, you guys are doing such an amazing job 🥺. Thank you! I am looking for fics in which arthur and merlin do research together in order to find whatever is threatening Camelot this week. Really anything in which they have to do a lot of research would be nice. I just need that cozy library and candles feeling (maybe arthur whining bc he's arthur, hehe). Preferably merthur and canon era. Obviously don't worry if you don't find anything!

Hello anon, I’m afraid I couldn’t find any canon era library fics, but I found quite a few modern ones! Hope they help

‘cause i like you (yeah i like you)

You Had Not Expected This

The Scroll and the Sword

The Magic Threshold

If Only I Knew the Book to Pick, to Make You Mine

[thfrustrationprompts]

Are there any Classics!Tom fics that aren't AU professor? If not can I add a prompt where Tom visits a library to research Coriolanus, sees OC reading a Latin text, they get into a conversation over who was better Greeks or Romans (I get idea Tom prefers Greeks), then maybe OC admits they don't like Shakespeare but prefers Marlowe. Intellectual nsfw shenanigans ensue... I've half written it myself now! All born out of a need to hear Tom spout less Shakespeare and more Aristophanes or Cicero ;)

There are a couple of non-Professor fics here where Tom recites Shakespeare if you’re still interested!

But I love your prompt even more! You seldom get to see Tom talking about anything other than Shakespeare even though he’s classically trained. I guess that’s because Shakespeare is considered more “mainstream” than the rest of the classics.