Here's a good mystery for this time of year: The Plot and the Pendulum, by Jenn McKinlay. Set in October, close to Halloween it has an old mansion, odd drafts and cold breezes, a decades old mystery, and a secret room. Complete with a skeleton with one hand on a book. By Edgar Allan Poe! The owner of the old house is being moved to an assisted care facility and the (estranged) son wants to be rid of her extensive library. He is donating them to the local library and when the head librarian, Lindsay, and her crew are boxing up the books the secret room, with the skeleton is found. This renews the search for someone gone missing decades ago, which causes old secrets to surface. It is part of the Library Lover's Mystery series.

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