Miss Zukas and the Library Murders

If Nancy Drew grew up to be an anal-retentive, socially awkward weirdo who also happened to be a librarian she may be Helma Zukas. Then again, as Zukas spends more of the story worrying about manners and cleanliness and less time actually caring about the murder I'm not sure it's fair to say she even has one detective bone in her body. At first, I hung in there just to read about Ruth. As Helma can't seem to stand her only friend, how can the reader come to care about her? It's also eye-roll inducing that Helma is so incredibly strange and spinstery and yet every single man (population 2) is enamored with her. Also, one more sailboat in the harbor description and I was going to throw it across the room...
I cannot believe this was written in 1994, or that Helma Zukas is supposed to be 30-something years old.
Please do not judge librarians by how they are depicted in this story.
Read for a book challenge (read a book in which the protagonist shares an occupation with you). Sadly, I had read every thing else that featured a librarian.