Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery.
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?
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I love this series and just read Death by Beach Read. My first line is from A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert.
The only thing constant in life is change.
Sounds like a fun cozy I would like!
Never ask that question. Never! Especially at the start of a book (or TV episode).
This sounds like a great book! I went and added the first one to my TBR list 🙂 https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2022/06/first-line-friday-53-elysium-tide.html
My first line this week comes from The Songs That Could Have Been by Amanda Wen:
Carter Douglas hated running out of makeup.
Sounds fun. The opening line of Tidewater Bride by Laura Frantz is, “Alas, she was not a tidewater bride, but she had been given charge of them.”
FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell was one of my Friday Firstliners.
I haven’t heard of this book. Thank you for sharing.
I haven’t a Lighthouse Library book in awhile! I loved the first couple in the series, though.
I posted the first line from Peyton’s Promise by Susan G. Mathis. https://daniellegrandinetti.com/2022/06/10/peytons-promise/
I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend!