Naomi Higgins

Then he married Naomi Higgins from down the road in Proverbia and off they went, just like young folks almost always do these days. That place of his stood empty for over a year—the economy’s been rotten out here since all that Mideast business started—but now somebody’s finally taken it over.

The closing narrator identifies Naomi as Sam Peebles’s wife. Existing canonical ID retained.

Sam stopped, crushed out a cigarette in the ashtray on his office desk, and looked hopefully at Naomi Higgins. “Well? What do you think?” Naomi was a pretty young woman from Proverbia, a town four miles west of Junction City. She lived in a ramshackle house by the Proverbia River with her ramshackle mother.

Needful Things says Sam Peebles married Naomi Higgins from Proverbia, matching his secretary and companion in The Library Policeman.