A Death Long Overdue
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When her former director is found dead in the water, librarian Lucy Richardson must get to the bottom of the mystery before the killer ends her tale.
It’s summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James’s college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, using flashlights to illuminate the dark path, but what's scarier than the dark is finding the former director of the Lighthouse Library floating lifeless in the water.
Helena Sanchez, the former director, wasn’t much loved and spent the party being rude to almost everyone there. As a result, Lucy finds herself in deep water as she rocks the boat, questioning several suspects. But she'll have to batten down the hatches and fast before she's left high and dry . . . and right in the killer’s crosshairs.
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Eva Gates. (2020). A Death Long Overdue. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
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- The seventh “entertaining” cozy mystery in a series by national–bestselling author Eva Gates [Vicki Delany]—“complete with a library, a cat, and a captivating location and sleuth” (Library Journal).
When her former director is found dead in the water, librarian Lucy Richardson must get to the bottom of the mystery before the killer ends her tale.
It’s summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James’s college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, using flashlights to illuminate the dark path, but what's scarier than the dark is finding the former director of the Lighthouse Library floating lifeless in the water.
Helena Sanchez, the former director, wasn’t much loved and spent the party being rude to almost everyone there. As a result, Lucy finds herself in deep water as she rocks the boat, questioning several suspects. But she'll have to batten down the hatches and fast before she's left high and dry . . . and right in the killer’s crosshairs. - seriesId
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"Delightful...Gates provides loads of eccentric and amusing suspects, shifting motives for the theft and for the murder, and a surprising solution to the mystery contained in the map."
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August 7, 2020
It's reunion weekend for Bertie James, director of the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library in Nag's Head, NC. She and her librarian classmates are celebrating their 40th anniversary. Bertie's staff puts together a surprise display of historical memories of librarianship. Assistant Director Lucy Richardson enjoys the excitement when the women arrive for the opening reception, but some of the women are upset when former library director Helena Sanchez shows up. Bertie invited her predecessor, but many didn't like the critical, stiff woman. Then Helena goes missing during a walking tour into the marsh after the reception. Lucy and the children's librarian wade into the marsh when they see Helena's body. No one knew Helena well, but which librarian hated her enough to kill her? Missing clues from the historical display include a copy of The Celestine Prophecy. Lucy insists Helena was shocked by a name on the checkout slip in the book. When the torn slip shows up, clues lead back to Helena's days as director, long before her retirement. The character-driven mystery has unexpected links to the Lighthouse Library. VERDICT This follow-up to Read and Buried features a huge cast of librarians, and sometimes it's difficult to keep everybody straight. Series fans will be excited to catch up with Lucy, her romantic partner, the mayor, and Lucy's friends.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN
Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Early in Gates’s exceptional seventh Lighthouse Library mystery (after 2019’s Read and Buried), Lucy Richardson, the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library assistant director, hosts a reception for the director’s 40th college reunion at the library in Nags Head, N.C. An unwelcome guest is disgruntled, demanding Helena Sanchez, a former director of the library, who becomes upset after examining the withdrawal slip inside an old book that’s part of a display of library artifacts. After the reception, Lucy, Helena, and a few others go out for a walk along the shore. Helena disappears in the dark, and a short time later the others find her body floating in the water beneath a pier. Unwilling to leave a murder connected to her beloved library to just the authorities, headstrong Lucy sets out to discover who killed Helena. Lucy and her clever cat, Charles, form an amusing sleuthing team, and the lively and endearing supporting characters add to the fun. Cozy queen Gates (a pen name of Vicki Delany) is at the top of her game. Agent: Kim Lionetti, BookEnds Literary.
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August 15, 2020
Murder kicks off a gathering of past and present librarians. Lucy Richardson loves her job at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Happy to help plan the 40th reunion of her boss Bertie James' college class, she curates a special exhibition of artifacts from libraries of the past. At the group's welcoming cocktail party, Lucy notices tension between some of the old friends. When the party ends, a small group goes for a stroll on the nearby boardwalk, encouraged by a local woman who claims psychic powers. Separated in the dark, they're startled by a splash and soon find the body of Helena Sanchez floating in the water, stabbed, most likely with a letter opener from the display. Helena was rude and unpopular, but those qualities hardly seem an adequate motive for murder, and Lucy's only clue is Helena's response to a withdrawal card from a book in the display containing the name Jeff Applewhite. Research shows that Applewhite vanished 25 years ago, possibly with an extremely valuable necklace stolen from a local woman. In addition to the ladies on the walk, Lucy suspects Helena's twin sister, who lives nearby and hated her sibling. But proof that any of them did the deed is hard to come by. A tricky mystery and charmingly quirky characters.COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Lucy Richardson, assistant librarian at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library on North Carolina's Outer Banks, has worked with her colleagues to plan a fortieth library-school class reunion for their director, Bertie James. They have even prepared a small display of library history, with such relics as a small card catalog, a typewriter, and a returned book with a date-due slip with actual signatures and names. By chance, Bertie's predecessor, Helena Sanchez, is in town, so Bertie includes her in the festivities. The party is going well, though Helena gasps when she sees the date-due slip. Louise Jane, a library staffer and storyteller with an interest in the paranormal, offers to take the assembled group for a nighttime walk on the boardwalk by the ocean, telling stories along the way. Except Helena Sanchez does not come back from the walk. Solving Helena's murder isn't quite a closed-house mystery, but the remote location of the lighthouse limits the pool of suspects to the party guests. As Lucy talks with them, she learns of connections among the group that have been long hidden. A fine addition to the growing shelf of library-themed mysteries.COPYRIGHT(2020) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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