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Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan goes to a conference at a library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies. When the bishop's secretary dies a suspicious death, Davies leads the investigation. Florence Semble comes to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer.