Something Read Something Dead
A Lighthouse Library Mystery
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4.6 • 49 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
National bestselling author Eva Gates’s fifth Lighthouse Library mystery will carry fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Dark deeds in the Lighthouse Library threaten to send Lucy Richardson’s soon-to-be-wed cousin Josie to an early ‘til-death-do-us-part.
Winter falls on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Lucy Richardson and her friends joyfully help her favorite cousin, Josie O'Malley, plan her wedding. The owner and head baker of Josie's Cozy Bakery and her fiancé, chef Jake Greenblatt, want a small, simple wedding.
But to their horror, Josie's imperious grandmother, Gloria, descends with the “Louisiana Mafia”: a gaggle of aunts and cousins who intend to take control of the wedding plans. Gloria doesn't do small and simple, and cousin Mirabelle has her own ideas for Josie's wedding, something grand and lavish—and paid for by Josie's parents, of course—that will kickstart her fledgling event planning business and get her work shown on the covers of wedding magazines. To make matters worse, Mirabelle focuses her full Southern charm on the prospective groom...and Jake doesn't seem entirely adverse to her attentions.
To smooth the waters, Lucy hosts a bridal shower at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. But it turns deadly when Mirabelle collapses—soon after eating the gluten-free treats Josie prepared specifically for her. Now, to save her favorite cousin from prison, Lucy will have to bring a crook to book in this fifth festive Lighthouse Library mystery from national bestselling author Eva Gates.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gates's charming fifth Lighthouse Library mystery (after 2018's The Spook in the Stacks) finds Lucy Richardson of the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library in Nags Head, N.C., and her friends making preparations for the small, simple wedding of Josie O'Malley, owner of Josie's Cozy Bakery, and her beau, restaurant owner Jake Greenblatt. Then Josie's overbearing Grandma Gloria and her cousins arrive from New Orleans. The Louisiana Mafia, as Josie calls them, are all set to commandeer the nuptials, making everything bigger, splashier, and more expensive. Tempers flare, feelings are injured, and then, at the bridal shower held in the library, Mirabelle, one of the bridesmaids, is poisoned. Det. Sam Watson gets taken off the case, because he knew practically everyone who attended the shower. He's replaced by a brash detective from the North Carolina State Police, but that doesn't stop Sam from wanting his friend Lucy to use her investigative skills in the murder inquiry. Plausible suspects and motives abound. This entry reinforces Gates's position at the top of the cozy genre.)
