The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner is a delightfully wacky murder mystery. It begins as a garden-variety cozy mystery. Sherry Pinkwhistle is a middle-aged librarian in a small town in upstate New York. She lives alone, has a close friend, a new friend, and an across-the-street neighbor that she looks in on. She has an almost boyfriend, a sweet middle-aged man who owns an antique shop. And, she solves murder mysteries.
There has been an uncannily high number of murders in their small town. Sherry has helped the local sheriff to solve them. She has a knack for it and, although he grumbles about her involvement, he accepts her help (and takes the credit).
A local art gallery owner is murdered—the cheating husband of Sherry’s new friend. Sherry gathers the clues (which are very conveniently strewn in her
And then her almost-boyfriend is killed. And everything flies off the rails.
There is a demon in her town, orchestrating the murders. And Sherry has to solve them to entertain the demon. A cast of characters help and hinder her: the sheriff who is intermittently possessed, the handsome, very young, very earnest new priest and his evil twin, as well as the dead boyfriend’s family. If this all isn’t enough, Sherry is hiding a crime in her own past.
The whole story is implausible (obviously), yet Sherry pulls it together to solve her boyfriend’s murder in conventional detective fashion. The trouble is, what will the demon do when Sherry wants the fun and games to stop?
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