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.
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?
Death by Beach Read by Eva Gates
is ninth A Lighthouse Library Mystery.
It can be read as a standalone, but you will be missing out on a
delightful series. I thought Death by Beach Read was well-written with realistic, developed characters. I enjoy the wonderful descriptions of the
Outer Banks. I would love to live in
that area. All our favorite characters
are back plus a couple of new additions.
Charles, the library cat, returns with attitude. Charles is one smart cat and a good judge of
character. The mystery was fun. It was
well-plotted with red herrings and good clues.
I like how the mystery ties into the book that the book club is
reading. I was delighted with the
spookiness of the mystery. I was able to
solve the mystery early in the book, but that did not hinder my pleasure. The reveal was exciting and provided the
answers Lucy had been seeking. I loved
the descriptions of the unpainted aristocracy homes including Lucy and Connor’s. I was sorry when my visit to the Outer Banks
came to an end. Death by Beach Read is a
hauntingly good time with unpainted aristocracy renovations, baffling
footsteps, a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, a jolly Louise Jayne, a haunted
history, a mystifying murder, and a fiery finish.
Kris
The
Avid Reader
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