The Book of Old Houses

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree undertakes a new investigation into the murder of antiquarian book expert Horace Robotham during a random mugging, after his death is linked to an enigmatic old volume discovered in the cellar of her 1823 fixer-upper, taking on a UFO-chasing book specialist, a reclusive conspiracy theorist, and a frustrated novelist to find the killer. 25,000 first printing.