There is booked for all tastes at Bloom's Bookstore & Coffeehouse. Bess's interest lies in romance... with poetry reader Richard Munro. But nancy heads straight for the mysteries specifically the rash of rare-book thefts that has hit River Heights.

For Nancy, the key is finding a connection between

the various stolen books. Her only clue is a deadly

threat... in the handwriting of a dead woman! She

has to come up with answers soon: The thief is

becoming more desperate and dangerous by the

moment determined to write a new chapter in

crime- -and perhaps write an ending to Nancy Drew's life