a death long overdue a lighthouse library mystery

Investigating they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door to the outside is open. The first night Lucy’s alone in the house, with the company of Charles the library cat, she hears sounds. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house.

The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready.

It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery.

Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. But when the library has a second break in, it becomes clear that someone is determined to solve that code. Meanwhile, the entire library staff and community become obsessed with trying to decode the page. When Lucy discovers that fellow-librarian Charlene had a past with Jeremy, she's forced to do what she vowed not to do-get involved in the case. Lucy's nemesis, Louise Jane McKaughnan, confesses to entering the library after closing to sneak a peek but denies seeing Jeremy-or his killer. Clearly Jeremy was not the only one who broke into the library-the map and the coded page are missing. Later that night, Lucy and Connor McNeil find the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes inside the library. The library is overrun by people clamoring to see the artifact. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's foundations. But if she can't crack its code, she may end up read and buried. Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating back to the Civil War.

A death long overdue a lighthouse library mystery