Booked for Trouble

Author: Gates, Eva

Brand: Berkley

Color: Multicolor

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 01-09-2015

Part Number: 50499

Details: Product Description
The author of By Book or By Crook returns to the Outer Banks and the Lighthouse Library, where Lucy Richardson must shed light on a shocking murder…

Lucy has finally found her bliss as a librarian and resident of the Bodie Island Lighthouse. She loves walking on the beach, passing her evenings with the local book club, bonding with the library cat, Charles, and enjoying the attention of not one, but TWO eligible men. But then her socialite mother, Suzanne, unexpectedly drops in, determined to move Lucy back to Boston—and reunite her with her ex-fiancé.

To make matters worse, Suzanne picks a very public fight at the local hotel with her former classmate Karen Kivas. So, when Karen turns up dead outside the library the next morning, Suzanne is immediately at the top of the suspect list. Now Lucy must hunt down a dangerous killer—before the authorities throw the book at her poor mother…
Review
“A charming new series…a book lover’s dream.”—
New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis


Praise for By Book or By Crook

“A smart whodunit….A likeable heroine.”—
New York Times bestselling author Sofie Kelly

“A library in a lighthouse? And a cat? Sign me up!”—National bestselling author Laurie Cass
About the Author
Eva Gates is also the author
By Book or by Crook, the first book in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series. She 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 ten novels under her belt in the mystery genre, published under the name Vicki Delany. She lives in Ontario.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


AUTHOR’S NOTE


Chapter 1
I love my mother. Truly, I do. She’s never shown me anything but love, although she’s tempered it by criticism perhaps once too often. She believes in me, I think, although she’s not exactly averse to pointing out that I’d be better off if I did things her way. She’s a kind, generous person. At least, that is, to those she doesn’t consider to be in competition with her for some vaguely defined goal, or else watch out—she’ll carry a grudge to the grave. She may be stiff and formal and sometimes overly concerned with the observance of proper behavior, but she’s also adventurous and well traveled. And above all, her love of her children knows no bounds.
I do love my mother.
I just wish she weren’t bearing down on me at this moment, face beaming, arms outstretched.
“Surprise, darling!” she cried.
It was a surprise all right. My heart sank into my stomach and I forced out a smile of my own. I’d been living in the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a short time, making a new life for myself away from the social respectability of my parents’ circle in Boston, and here she was.
“Hi, Mom,” I said as I was enveloped in a hug. It was a real hug, too. Hearty and all-embracing, complete with vigorous slaps on the back. When it came to her children, Mom allowed herself to forget she was a Boston society matron. I loved her for that, too.
I pulled myself out of the embrace. “What are you doing here, Mom?”
“I’ve come for a short vacation and to see how you’re settling in.” She lifted her arms to indicate not only the Outer Banks but the Lighthouse Library, where I worked and lived. “Isn’t this charming? I haven’t been in this building since it was renovated.”
“You were here before it became a library?” I asked with some astonishment. When the historic Bodie Island Lighthouse had no longer been needed for its original function as a manually operated light, it had slowly crumbled into disrepair. Then, in a stroke of what I considered absolute genius, it was renovated and turned into a public library. High above, the great first-order Fresnel lens flashed in the night to guide ships at sea, while down below books were read and cherished.
“Of course I was,” Mom said. “Oh, I can remember some wild nights

EAN: 9780451470942

Package Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English