Deadly Ever After
A Lighthouse Library Mystery
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Lucy’s wedding is at stake—and to save the date, she’ll need to find an elusive killer—in the 8th whodunit in the Lighthouse Library cozy mystery series.
They’re getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library.
As they’re packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy’s former almost-fiancé and his overbearing mother, Evangeline. Push comes to love when Evangeline makes no secret of why she’s here: to get Lucy and Ricky back together.
Lucy isn’t temped in the least, and Ricky is nothing but embarrassed at his mother’s desperate ploy. Before returning to Boston Evangeline throws a dinner party at Jake’s Seafood Bar for a reluctant Lucy and her family. Lucy hopes to get the dinner over with and see Evangeline and Ricky returning to Boson. But when a body is found at the restaurant’s kitchen door, Lucy is again forced to unwillingly put on her detective's hat and do what she can to save her family and her engagement. Meanwhile, the classic novel reading club is reading The Hound of the Baskervilles, and open war breaks out in the Lighthouse Library when Lucy agrees to temporarily take care of a dog named Fluffy, but Charles the library cat has other ideas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gates's heartwarming eighth Lighthouse Library mystery (after 2020's A Death Long Overdue) finds the friends and family of librarian Lucy Richardson celebrating her long-awaited engagement to Connor McNeil, the mayor of their small town on North Carolina's Outer Banks, at a local restaurant. The situation becomes awkward when Lucy's former boyfriend, Ricky Lewiston, and his formidable mother crash the party—ostensibly to congratulate the happy couple, but actually to persuade Lucy to dump Connor and marry Ricky. The discovery of the body of Ricky's father, Rich, behind the restaurant really puts the kibosh on the festivities. The police can't figure out who killed Rich, or even why he'd come to town from Boston in the first place. Getting involved in a murder investigation is the last thing on Lucy's to-do list, but she soon realizes that in order to move forward, one sometimes has to take care of a few loose ends from the past. Plenty of unexpected plot twists and characters the reader can really care about help make this cozy a winner. Gates (a pen name of Vicki Delany) consistently entertains.
Customer Reviews
Lots of changes are coming to the Lighthouse Library
Lots of changes are coming to the Lighthouse Library, but nobody expects murder to come with them. And when the death isn’t on the library grounds, Lucy has a brief hope to not get caught up in the investigation, until she realizes that her family’s caught in the middle of it. One of the things this series always does for me is to carry me away in the story. I’ll get caught up in Lucy’s social whirl, and get distracted by all the sparkly red herrings, to the point that I’m unable to outthink the plot. This is a gift I treasure. Give me a tricky puzzle to keep me distracted and I will thank you for it. Lucy and Connor have me charmed and quite thoroughly hooked. I can’t wait to see what the author has in store for them next.
I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through NetGalley.