Death by Beach Read
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
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?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Eva Gates. (2022). Death by Beach Read. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eva Gates. 2022. Death By Beach Read. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eva Gates, Death By Beach Read. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eva Gates. Death By Beach Read. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2022.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 3 | 2 |
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Death by Beach Read
- crossRefId
- 6768952
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/6E9/2E3/3D/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/6E9/2E3/3D/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643859118
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 690628
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643859118
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 690628
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- series
- Lighthouse Library Mystery
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Eva Gates
- id
- 6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4
- title
- Death by Beach Read
- starRating
- 0
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=6768952
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: DeathbyBeachRead_9781643859118_6768952
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1206501
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643859118
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 690628
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 6/7/2022
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e92e33d-e70c-474d-9e5f-bc9fa803c2a4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: DeathbyBeachRead_6768952
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 690628
- type: ASIN
- value: B09FP48MHH
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 6/7/2022
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e92e33d-e70c-474d-9e5f-bc9fa803c2a4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: DeathbyBeachRead_9781643859118_6768952
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643859118
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 690628
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/7/2022
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e92e33d-e70c-474d-9e5f-bc9fa803c2a4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Women Sleuths
- value: romance
- value: North Carolina
- value: Mystery and Suspense
- value: Paranormal
- value: Fiction
- value: novels
- value: family secrets
- value: mystery
- value: mysteries
- value: librarians
- value: cozy
- value: cozy mystery
- value: police
- value: mystery and thrillers
- value: fiction books
- value: beach read
- value: detective novels
- value: beach reads
- value: cozy mysteries
- value: cozy mysteries women sleuths series
- value: mysteries and thrillers
- value: crime books
- value: mystery books
- value: Murder mystery books
- value: women sleuths mysteries
- value: mystery novels
- value: mystery thriller suspense
- value: books mystery
- value: cozy mystery books
- value: Eva Gates
- value: books fiction
- value: miranda james
- value: jenn mckinlay
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Gates, Eva
- bioText: Eva Gates is a national bestselling author who began her writing career as a Sunday writer: a single mother of three high-spirited daughters, with a full-time job as a computer programmer. Now she has more than twenty novels under her belt in the mystery genre, published under the name Vicki Delany. She lives in Ontario. This is her ninth Lighthouse Library mystery.
- name: Eva Gates
- publishDate
- 2022-06-07T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Death by Beach Read
- fullDescription
- 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? - seriesId
- 520340
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 1, 2022
An engaged North Carolina couple restore an old house reputed to be haunted. Librarian Lucy Richardson and her fiance, Nags Head mayor Connor McNeil, have purchased the house of their dreams. The historic beach cottage needs a lot of work, but handy Connor and his father, Fred, a retired carpenter, have fixed it up enough to move in. All is going swimmingly until Lucy and Charles, the library cat who lives with her, start hearing strange noises while Connor's out of town. The house was originally built by an old Outer Banks family whose fortunes have fallen. Fisherman Ralph Harper hasn't lived there for many years; his sister, Joanna, scared out of the house as a teen, has never set foot in it again. As the noises continue, Connor shows Lucy a set of drop-down stairs in the pantry leading to the unfinished attic, a space containing some seemingly worthless Harper family junk and footprints in the dust. Despite changing all the locks, the couple finds a man dead in their kitchen, strangled with Charles' leash. He's identified as Ralph's twin, Jimmy Harper, a low-level criminal who's been out of sight for years. A concealed panel in the pantry floor explains how he got in, but what was he looking for? Tales of a hidden treasure drive Lucy, who has plenty of experience in solving murders, to look to the past to solve Jimmy's death. Fans of mystery and romance will enjoy Lucy, her quirky friends, and plenty of red herrings.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 25, 2022
Life couldn’t be sweeter for librarian Lucy Richardson and her fiancé, Connor McNeil, the mayor of Nags Head on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, in Gates’s breezy ninth Lighthouse Library mystery (after 2021’s Deadly Ever After). After a winter renovating their historic beach cottage, the couple have moved into their new home. Even rumors that the cottage is haunted don’t disturb Lucy. By coincidence, Lucy’s library book club is reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s eerie The House of the Seven Gables when Lucy hears odd noises her first night alone in the cottage. Gossip about how one of the cottage’s last residents fled the house screaming about a ghost doesn’t help ease Lucy’s fears. Neither does the dead body Lucy and Connor find splayed on their kitchen floor. What drew the dead man to their cottage, and why are other unsavory characters suddenly interested in a house that sat empty for decades? Lucy must solve her own haunted house mystery if she and Connor are to live happily ever after. Sprightly prose matches distinctive characterizations. Cozy readers will enjoy spending time with book lover Lucy and her friends. Agent: Kimberly Lionetti, BookEnds Literary.
- popularity
- 1170
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/6e92e33d-e70c-474d-9e5f-bc9fa803c2a4/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 6e92e33d-e70c-474d-9e5f-bc9fa803c2a4
- starRating
- 4
- readingOrder
- 9
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/6E9/2E3/3D/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/6E9/2E3/3D/{6E92E33D-E70C-474D-9E5F-BC9FA803C2A4}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Mystery
- publishDateText
- 06/07/2022
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643859101
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- 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... - sortTitle
- Death by Beach Read
- crossRefId
- 6768952
- series
- Lighthouse Library Mystery
- publisher
- CROOKED LANE BOOKS
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC022040
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- code: FIC022100
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
- code: FIC022110
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Animals
