The Lies that Bind by Kate Carlisle (2010)

I picked this up because it said "A Bibliophile Mystery." The main character is Brooklyn Wainwright - named after the place where she was conceived during the intermission of a Grateful Dead show. She restores old books and teaches bookbinding at the Bay Area Book Arts Center. (This had me looking up classes at our local book arts center.) But, she keeps stumbling onto dead and injured bodies. For a while it just seemed too much, but then the victims were tied together nicely in the end. Some of the characters were a bit over the top - the bitchy, sexy director of BABA, the hunky security guy that Brooklyn almost has a relationship with, the lesbian artist neighbors, the hippie parents, but the mix actually worked. And I loved the details on bookbinding and rare books. I will have to read the rest.