If ever a book was aimed at the LibraryThing demographic, then this is it. A collection of 15 original stories by renowned crime fiction authors, all with a theme of 'books'. The scope and range of these stories is very wide. Sometimes a book, or library, or bookshop, provides the macguffin that drives the story, sometimes the location for the story and sometimes seems very tangential to the narrative. Further, not all these stories could be called crime fiction at all and range from hard police procedural through historical fiction and alternate reality to magical fantasy.

The best two stories in the book demonstrate this spread of imagination. 'The Caxton Lending Library and Book Deposit' by John Connolly is a sweet fantasy exploring what every reader secretly wants. 'The Book Case' by Nelson DeMille is such a hard core New York procedural you can smell the coffee and taste the bagel.

This book is a MUST for all dedicated book lovers (you know who you are) whatever your preferred genre is. ( )