<p> Israel Armstrong&#8212;the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland&#8212;finds himself on the brink of thirty. But any celebration, planned or otherwise, must be put on hold when a troubled teenager&#8212;the daughter of a local politician&#8212;mysteriously vanishes. Israel suspects the girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her <i>American Pastoral</i> from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town&#8212;while he attempts to recover from his recent breakup with his girlfriend, Gloria, and tries to figure out where in Tumdrum a Jewish vegetarian might celebrate his thirtieth birthday. </p>