Death by Beach Read

Lighthouse Library Mysteries, Book 9

By: Eva Gates

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault

It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home, at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. But then a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode.

The first night Lucy’s alone in the house, with the company of Charles, the library cat, she hears sounds. While investigating, they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door leading outside is open. Lucy's reminded that the house is said to be haunted: forty years ago, the teenage daughter of the owners fled in the night, and never again stepped foot inside her family home.

The sounds have an all-too-human origin. One evening, Lucy and Connor find the dead body of a man in their kitchen. They soon realize he has a long-time connection to their house. Lucy's forced to find out what happened all those years ago and why it’s threatening her happiness today.

Meanwhile, the Classic Novel Reading Club is reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne, a book about another old house full of secrets. Can Lucy find parallels to her own situation in Hawthorne’s fiction before the killer strikes again?

©2022 Eva Gates (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Plot …

Good group of characters and unique plot. However the story seems to get weaker near the end. As if author had to come up with the ending in a rush .. or she just wanted to end it quickly.

Great narrators to great stories

The narrators in Audible makes characters come alive. I love the author. Her stories are so well written..

It’s okay

Please get rid of Louise Jane. She kinda ruins the story. The main character not being too bright is bad enough

Fun Romance Mystery

I love this series! It’s a clean mystery/romance, and the narrator is great! Especially Louise Janes character!

This Series/Book Is My Happy Place

The Outerbanks, a library in a lighthouse, Lucy and Conner, a murder, maybe a ghost, and the dulcet tones of Elise Arsenault are a recipe for cozy mystery reading at its best.