Dereske, Jo. Final Notice (New York: Avon Books, 1998) 228 p.

Helma Zukas, the staid strong-willed librarian in Washington State brings her considerable powers to another murder case. At the same time Ms. Moon, the library’s new-age director has plans for the staff to wear “I love myself” buttons and take personality tests that will classify each of them into their respective colors. Helma firmly refuses to comply with each nutty decision and the rest of the staff relies on her to save them all from this nonsense. The story opens with a quarrel between library patrons over use of an Internet computer, so Bellehaven Public Library is continuing to automate.