READ AND BURIED

Read and Buried: A Lighthouse Library Mystery by Eva Gates

 

 Read and Buried

 

Read and Buried: A Lighthouse Library Mystery

Cozy Mystery 6th in Series 

Crooked Lane Books (October 15, 2019) 

Hardcover: 325 Pages 

ISBN-10: 1643852337

ISBN-13: 978-1643852331 

Digital ASIN: B07P9MQV3F 

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.

Even if you have not read previous books in this series, grab this one and dive in. The whole town wants to be included in deciphering a secret code and maybe a hunt for buried treasure.

When a less than upstanding member of the community is found dead in the library after hours, and pages of a mysterious diary are missing,  motives seem to multiply as this case is investigated.
With wonderful characters and complicated relationships, and enough secrets to keep you guessing, this was an enjoyable book to escape into.

The descriptive passages will make you add the Outer Banks to your destination bucket list.
Preferably without murder involved.

About Eva Gates

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Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than thirty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: the Tea By The Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Year Round Christmas mysteries for Penguin Random House, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series and, as Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library books for Crooked Lane.

Vicki is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and co-founder and organizer of the Women Killing It crime writing festival. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

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