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Author:

Gates, Eva, 1951- author.

Title:

Death by beach read / Eva Gates.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Crooked Lane Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

277 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Librarians--Fiction.
Libraries--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Outer Banks (N.C.)--Fiction.
Lighthouses--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Cozy mysteries.
Novels.

Summary:

"It's spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode. The first night Lucy's alone in the house, with the company of Charles the library cat, she hears sounds. Investigating, they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door to the outside is open. Lucy's reminded that the house is said to be haunted: forty years ago the teenage daughter of the owners fled in the night, and never again stepped foot inside her family home. But the sounds have an all-too-human origin and one evening Lucy and Connor find the dead body of a man they don't even recognize in their kitchen. They soon realize he has a long-time connection to their house. Lucy's forced to find out what happened all those years ago and why it's threatening her happiness today. Meanwhile, the Classic Novel Reading Club is reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne, a book about another old house full of secrets. Can Lucy find parallels to her own situation in Hawthorne's fiction before the killer strikes again?"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Lighthouse library mystery ; [9]
Gates, Eva, 1951- Lighthouse library mystery ; 9.

ISBN:

1643859102
9781643859101

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1268206643

Locations:

WBPB115 -- Albert City Public Library (Albert City)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

VWPC964 -- Calmar Public Library (Calmar)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

JMPC081 -- Madrid Public Library (Madrid)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

ZLPD437 -- Missouri Valley Public Library (Missouri Valley)

CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)

VZPB964 -- Ossian Public Library (Ossian)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

RFPC397 -- Stuart Public Library (Stuart)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)