By Book or by Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery, #1)

by Eva Gates

Elise Arsenault (Narrator)

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....

• ISBN10: 1494514664
• ISBN13: 9781494514662
• Publish Date: 24 June 2015 (first published 3 February 2015)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 14 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Tantor Media, Inc
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Duration: 9 hours and 24 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

3.5 stars, pretty good for the first in a new series. I'm a sucker for stories set in a coastal community, and a library set in a lighthouse is a cute touch. The plot had a lot of twists and turns, kept me guessing until the end. I thought the characters could've been fleshed out a little more, most were one-dimensional scenery. Also a hint of a dreaded love triangle (ugh!) that I'm hoping is not long and drawn out.


Definitely a promising start and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.