Crushing Crystal (Jane Stuart and Winky) Author: Evan Marshall
	Book Information Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Book Type: Mass Market Paperback Rating: 5 ISBN-13: 9780758202291 - ISBN-10: 0758202296 Pages: 287

When murder strikes too close to home, and pretty young girls vanish from the privileged streets of Shady Hills, literary agent Jane Stuart finds herself in the midst of a real-life page-turner...with a deadly surprise ending...



Jane couldn't say no when her nanny's sister needed a place to stay, but she's certainly glad to see her houseguest go. In just two short weeks as assistant director of the Shady Hills Public Library, Crystal Ryerson has proven herself a meddler par excellence. Relying on gossip and a powerful superiority complex, she has branded her Realtor's daughter an unfit mother, and formally accused a local school librarian of stealing computers. Popular, she is not.



Still, it's shocking when the next meeting of Jane's library reading group crashes to a halt as thousands of pounds of books and shelves come toppling down on poor Crystal. Especially when Jane's boyfriend, Detective Stanley Greenberg, makes a grim discovery: The bolts on the bookcase had been deliberately removed. By someone who had been at the meeting.



Crystal's Realtor, Myrtle Lovesey, and the recently fired school librarian, Dick Stanton, are prime suspects. Both were at the library that night. But things seem murkier to Jane, especially after the body of a beautiful teenager who worked at the library is found in the woods behind the railroad tracks, and two other girls go missing.



Jane knows the strange events are all part of the same puzzle—and she can't resist searching for the missing pieces. Somehow, despite the ever-present distractions of trying to keep Winky's claws out of the couch and her diva clients' claws out of each other, she manages to stay on the murderer's trail. But it just so happens that a trail can go both ways, and this one may well lead the killer right to Jane's doorstep...