The Bad Book Affair: 4 (Mobile Library Mystery) - Softcover

"A work of tender and bonhomous refraction. ...Sansom is emphatically unpretentious in his portrayal of the ordinary lives of ordinary folk, and his gentle humor buoys their humdrum lives...pleasing, amusing and honest."--New York Newsday

"[THE BOOK STOPS HERE] succeeds as a light farce . . . The book's high point is the acerbic portrayal of the personalities making up the Mobile Library Steering Committee, but most every page will elicit a grin, if not a chuckle."--Publishers Weekly

"A wonderfully comic novel...Ian Sansom has an acute sense of the absurd, and does not allow sympathetic intimacy to stand in the way of some wicked barbs."--Daily Mail (London)

"[Sansom's] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans"--Publishers Weekly

"An endearing first novel...People cross paths, hook up, split up, say good-bye. Narrative unity derives less from the story than from the amiable persona of the narrator himself, in all his rambling, digressive warmth, and his mild insistence throughout--Daily Telegraph (London)

"A humane, big-hearted and sometimes devastatingly funny book."--LA Weekly

"A clever, affectionate poke in the ribs.... Sansom...discovers an exceptionally lively world."--Kirkus Reviews

"[a] comic masterpiece"--The Belfast Telegraph

"...the dialogue is certainly amusing. Readers who enjoy send-ups of crime novels, talk-radio hosts, city pomposities and rural eccentricities will queue up for the series..."--Kirkus Reviews

Israel Armstrong--driver of a mobile library in Ireland and amateur detective--is on the case again when a politician's teen daughter to whom Israel loaned A Clockwork Orange and Lady Chatterley's Lover turns up missing and it is up to the librarian to find her before he gets run out of town. Original. 30,000 first printing.