The Librarian of Crooked Lane: The Glass Library, book 1

C.J. Archer

Sep 2022 · The Glass Library Book 1 · C.J. Archer · Narrated by Marian Hussey

About this audiobook

A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer, the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.

Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she’s descended from magicians, she’s skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she’s just an ordinary woman who loves books. She seeks answers from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won’t be easy, especially when he turns out to be as artless as her, and more compelling and dangerous than books.

War hero Gabe is gifted with wealth, a loving family, and an incredible amount of luck that saw him survive four harrowing years of a brutal war without injury. But not all injuries are visible. Burying himself in his work as a consultant for Scotland Yard, Gabe is going through the motions as he investigates the theft of a magician-made painting. But his life changes when he unwittingly gets Sylvia dismissed from her job and places her in danger.

After securing her new employment in a library housing the world’s greatest collection of books about magic, Gabe and Sylvia’s lives become intwined as they work together to find both the painting and the truth about Sylvia’s past before powerful people can stop them.

But sometimes the past is better left buried...

Ratings and reviews

Great read (listen to audiobook)! I loved it as much as the earlier Glass and Steele series.

loved it. good story line.

loved it

About the author

C. J. Archer is a romance author who started out working various jobs such as: librarian, IT support person and technical writer. It was her dream to become a fiction writer. She has won and placed in romance writing contests including Romance Writers Australias Emerald Award in 2008 for the manuscript which she went on to self-publish with the title Honor Bound.