By Book or By Crook By Book or By Crook
Book 1 - A Lighthouse Library Mystery

By Book or By Crook

A Lighthouse Library Mystery

    • 4.2 • 219 Ratings
    • $3.99

Publisher Description

Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!

For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family’s social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father’s law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite.
 
Calling on her aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun—and some confections from her cousin Josie’s bakery—will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island.
 
Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery—and she’s not so sure there’s going to be a happy ending....

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2015
February 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

stitcher14 ,

By book or by crook

A good relaxing read!

MeTooFab ,

Obvious

Predictable from the very beginning. It’s obvious who the killer is even before the murder. The side characters are unlikable, annoying and even horrible, rude people. I stopped halfway thru and skipped to the end just to be done with it.

just a small voice ,

Great read!

Loved this story, the lighthouse,especially, and the town were wonderful as was the characters!

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