Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books!

Audiobook. I have the cassettes, not the CDs.

I can't believe I'm categorizing this as a period piece since I was alive then but it is written in the 1970s and so does have dialogue from that time period, "Right on" and calling cops the "Fuzz". As was alive during that time period, I can safely say so one in my impoverished, crime riddled neighborhood in the Bay Area of California called the police the "Fuzz". So, I'm thinking at the time she wrote this, Elizabeth Peters wanted to appear up to date on all of the current slang and that is why she threw it in.

The story itself was okay. One of Jean's colleagues in a fellowship program in Rome is murdered and for some reason they're after Jean too. She gets help from Jacqueline, a librarian Jean literally ran into and became friends with. This friendship is very strange because it's like neither woman really wants it in the first place and they seem to get on each other's nerves. I've a couple of books under the author's pseudonym Barbara Michaels. The writing is very similar.