Eva Gates

A Lighthouse Library Mystery

A Death Long Overdue

Sarah Sammis

The mystery was complex enough to keep me guessing even if I'd figured out early on the logistics of the 1995 mystery. There are enough suspects and enough motives to make spotting the actual killer tricky. In terms of narrative flow between present and past, A Death Long Overdue is a good companion read to For Whom the Book Tolls by Laura Gail Black (2020)

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When her former director is found dead in the water, librarian Lucy Richardson will have to get to the bottom of the mystery before the killer ends her tale. It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James's college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, using flashlights to illuminate the dark path, but what's scarier than the dark is finding the former director of the Lighthouse Library floating lifeless in the water. Helena Sanchez, the former director, wasn't much loved and spent the party being rude to almost everyone there. As a result, Lucy finds herself in deep water as she rocks the boat, questioning several suspects. But she'll have to batten down the hatches and fast before she's left high and dry...and right in the killer's crosshairs.

Melissa Palmer

Another good installment in this great cozy mystery series. Lucy, the librarian, once again is around a murder and does her own investigation. I love Charles the library cat!

danielle bush

I love a good cozy mystery, and one set in a library? How could I pass up a chance to read that? 
This is book 7 in the lighthouse library series, and while it can be read as a standalone, I think I would have liked it even more if I had started from the beginning. 
Lucy and her cat Charles have been living in the apartment above the library for about a year now, and she has been working on a cool display for the library. It has to do with things from the past, like the showcased a book that had the signature card on the inside cover. where you used to sign your name, and the librarian stamped it with the return date.. Which I thought was funny because I totally remember those.. 
So Bertie the Director for the library is having a 40 year college reunion at the library, she also invites the libraries old director Helena Sanchez, thinking she would like to see the display and just check out the place where she used to work. 
Things start to go a little weird with Helena and a couple of the guests right from the beginning. I guess Helena was not a nice person when she worked there before. When everyone goes out on the boardwalk for a night time walk. They find Helena dead.. 
Now Lucy is working on her own, and kind of with the police to figure out the mystery of well not really who wanted Helena dead, because it seemed like lots of people didn't like her. But who actually did it and why.. 
This story had me guessing from the beginning, I didn't figure out who did it until it was revealed. 
If you like cozy, murder mysteries. or books that take place around or in libraries I would definitely check out this series.. 
Thank you Netgalley for letting me read an arc of this book, for my honest review.

A Death Long Overdue A Lighthouse Library Mystery

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