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By Book or By Crook - Eva Gates
By Book or By Crook
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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... show more
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
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00LMGLZW8
Publisher: NAL
Edition language: English
Category:
Mystery
Series: Lighthouse Library Mystery (#1)
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Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it
1.0 By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates
I finished this back in June, so some details are fuzzy. Lucy previously worked at the Harvard Library and is now a new librarian at Bodie Island's public library, which is housed inside a lighthouse. There are a few folks who aren't thrilled that she got the job, but for the most part Lucy loves h...
loribonesscaswell
loribonesscaswell rated it
4.0 By Book or By Crook
Dollycas’s ThoughtsTwo of my favorite things, libraries, and lighthouses, so when they are combined it really gets me excited.Lucy Richardson is the newest librarian at The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library but her hiring has some people quite twitterpated. One thought the job should have been hers, o...
loribonesscaswell
loribonesscaswell rated it
4.0 By Book or By Crook
Dollycas’s ThoughtsTwo of my favorite things, libraries, and lighthouses, so when they are combined it really gets me excited.Lucy Richardson is the newest librarian at The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library but her hiring has some people quite twitterpated. One thought the job should have been hers, o...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it
3.0 By Book or by Crook (Lighthouse Library, #1) or... how to get screwed by your publisher.
I hemmed and hawed about how to rate this book because it's a good story, with a fantastic setting (a library in a lighthouse!) and good characters. But it is the worst book I've ever read for editing by a major publisher ever. Quickly: Lucy moves away from her old-money family in Boston to liv...
Mystereity
Mystereity rated it
3.5 By Book Or By Crook
Good for the first in a new series. I'm a sucker for stories set in a coastal community, and a library set in a lighthouse is a cute touch. The plot had a lot of twists and turns, kept me guessing until the end. The secondary characters weren't fleshed out very well, mostly just one-dimensional s...
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