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A Hold for Mrs. Lindgren

Name: A Hold for Mrs. Lindgren
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Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)
Author: Winnie Lark

by Winnie Lark · published via Smithbook

Mrs. Lindgren has put a book on hold every week for twenty years. This week she did not come to pick it up.

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"The hold list as a clue is so clever. Dot reading a stranger’s taste in books like a map is wonderful."

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Every Monday for twenty years, Mrs. Agnes Lindgren has placed a hold on one book at the Lake Street branch and picked it up on Thursday before noon. She has never been late. So when her hold sits on the shelf past closing, Dot Engquist goes to check on her, and finds the house empty, the coffee cold and the hold list from the last six months suggesting that Agnes had been researching something very specific. The second Lake Street Library mystery.

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Agnes Lindgren picked up her hold every Thursday before noon, and had done so since the branch reopened after the roof repair in 2004. She wore a blue wool coat in winter and a blue cotton coat in summer and she always said the same thing to whoever was at the desk: “Well, let’s see what I was thinking on Monday.” This Thursday the book sat on the hold shelf with her name on the paper slip, a large print biography of Greta Garbo, and noon came and went. At two, the clerk mentioned it to Dot. At

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Title: A Hold for Mrs. Lindgren
Author: Winnie Lark
Format: Digital · browser reader
Language: English
Category: Mystery & Investigation
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Publisher: Independent · via Smithbook

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★★★★★ · pet•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Even better than the first

The hold list as a clue is so clever. Dot reading a stranger’s taste in books like a map is wonderful.

★★★★★ · ais•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Hotdish and suspicion

Church basement funeral lunch plus a murder suspect. Very Minnesota. Very good.

★★★★☆ · fra•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/29/2026

Charming

I wanted more of Arne. He steals every scene he is in.

About the author

Winnie Lark

I spent thirty-eight years behind the reference desk of a branch library in St. Paul, and I can tell you that people will confess things to a librarian they would never tell a priest. They want a book on divorce, or poisons, or how long a body stays frozen in a lake, and they always say it is for a friend. My sleuth, Dot Engquist, is a retired reference librarian who still cannot walk past a misfiled book. I write on the couch by the front window, with a cup of coffee going cold and my husband Arne asking what is for supper. The answer is usually hotdish.

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