Have you ever wondered what employees at a dictionary company do? I hadn’t but I found out anyway when I read The Broken Teaglass. The story is about Billy and Mona, two young editors working at the Samuelson Dictionary Company, who discover some puzzling citations in the word files. The quotations are overly long, confessional in tone and appear to have been written by a former Samuelson employee. They all cite a book entitled, The Broken Teaglass as the source but when Billy and Mona try to track down a copy of the book, they find that it doesn’t exist. As they unearth more citations, they come to realize that the writer was involved in an unsolved murder at a local park and that someone at Samuelson’s may hold the key to the mystery. Even though this book is shelved in the fiction collection, it is definitely a mystery and was hard to put down. I strongly recommend it. – Leslie Loftus

Location: FICTION Arsenaul Emily 10/2009