The Books
Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating
back to the Civil War. But if she can't crack its code, she may end up read and buried.
The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club
is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's foundations. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered
tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable
code.
The library is overrun by people clamoring to see the
artifact. Later that night, Lucy and Connor McNeil find the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes inside the library. Clearly Jeremy was not the only one who broke into the library--the map
and the coded page are missing.
Lucy's nemesis, Louise Jane McKaughnan, confesses to
entering the library after closing to sneak a peek but denies seeing Jeremy--or his killer. When Lucy discovers that fellow-librarian Charlene had a past with Jeremy, she's forced to do what she
vowed not to do--get involved in the case. Meanwhile, the entire library staff and community become obsessed with trying to decode the page. But when the library has a second break in, it becomes
clear that someone is determined to solve that code.
Praise for Read and
Buried:
"Historical injustices combine with a touch of romance
and codebreaking in a neatly packaged cozy."
—Kirkus
Reviews
"Delightful...Gates provides loads of eccentric and
amusing suspects, shifting motives for the theft and for the murder, and a surprising solution to the mystery contained in the map."
—Publishers
Weekly
Dark deeds in the Lighthouse Library threaten to send Lucy Richardson’s soon-to-be-wed cousin Josie to an early ‘til-death-do-us-part.
Winter falls on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Lucy Richardson and her friends joyfully help her favorite cousin, Josie O'Malley, plan her wedding. The owner and head baker of Josie's Cozy Bakery
and her fiancé, chef Jake Greenblatt, want a small, simple wedding.
But to their horror, Josie's imperious grandmother, Gloria, descends with the “Louisiana Mafia”: a gaggle of aunts and cousins who intend to take control of the wedding plans. Gloria doesn't do small
and simple, and cousin Mirabelle has her own ideas for Josie's wedding, something grand and lavish―and paid for by Josie's parents, of course―that will kickstart her fledgling event planning business
and get her work shown on the covers of wedding magazines. To make matters worse, Mirabelle focuses her full Southern charm on the prospective groom…and Jake doesn't seem entirely adverse to her
attentions.
To smooth the waters, Lucy hosts a bridal shower at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. But it turns deadly when Mirabelle collapses―soon after eating the gluten-free treats Josie prepared
specifically for her. Now, to save her favorite cousin from prison, Lucy will have to bring a crook to book in this fifth festive Lighthouse Library mystery from national bestselling author Eva
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The Spook in the Stacks
The Spook in the Stacks is the fourth Llighthouse Library mystery, now published by Crooked Lane Books.
Reading Up A Storm
Reading up A Storm, the third in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series from Eva Gates, is now available
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Booked for Trouble
I was sold on this series from the first book; this is an author, and a series, that I definitely want to see more of. I highly recommend this to cozy mystery readers who appreciate a well-written plot with depth and its share of chilling moments."
Open Book Society
"A lighthouse library and a gorgeous Himalayan cat...if you think that sounds like the making of a purr-fect cozy mystery, you would be 100% right."
Mochas Mysteries and Meows
"The second Lighthouse Library mystery is deftly written. What reader could not be impressed by this description of a suspect:
“You can’t trust a man who doesn’t like libraries.”
Mysteries and More From Saskatchewan
By Book or By Crook
“Gates writes with the clarity and dazzle of a lighthouse beacon. The first in her Lighthouse Library series is a puzzler peopled with a cast of Outer Banks eccentrics who delight from the first line to the end. A must for Austen fans, cat lovers, and library devotees!”
—Laura DiSilverio, author of the Book Club Mysteries
Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!
For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family’s social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father’s law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite.
Calling on her aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun—and some confections from her cousin Josie’s bakery—will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island.
Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery—and she’s not so sure there’s going to be a happy ending....
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