Showing Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance by Jo Dereske

A most unusual death has landed Helma Zukas right in the middle of another murder scene. Stanley Plummer had been cataloging a collection of Native American books for Bellehaven's new Cultural Center when his body was found in the center's ladies room - stabbed through the heart and clutching a Barbie doll. Miss Zukas is coerced by her conniving boss, library director May Apple Moon, into finishing the dead man's job at the mysterious center. And, in a letter dated the day he died - it appears the victim himself is asking her to get to the bottom of his murder.

"A loving send-up of the stereotype of the prim librarian." - New York Times

"Delightfully devilish." - Mystery Readers Journal