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Engaging and Enjoyable Cozy

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2018

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Booked for Trouble is the wonderful second book in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series by Eva Gates. In book 2, Lucy gets an unexpected visit from her mother, Suzanne, who is trying to persuade Lucy to move back to Boston. Lucy continues to dodge her mom's attempts to guilt her into coming back home and back into a life she wasn't happy with as the story unfolds. Not only is Suzanne pressuring Lucy to leave the Outer Banks, she is also causing scenes with hotel employees that she went to school with - very public scenes.

When her classmate, Karen, is found dead outside the lighthouse the morning after a book club meeting, in which Suzanne also attended, all fingers point at Suzanne. As Lucy is trying to get a little more settled into her home and job at the lighthouse library, she now has to figure out who killed Karen and why. She knows her mother didn't kill anyone but as the evidence mounts and clues show up, Lucy must up her game to keep her mother out of jail for a crime Lucy knows she did not commit.

Lucy is a wonderful character. She may come from money but she doesn't act like it or flaunt her family's riches. Even with her mother in the Outer Banks, Lucy is still pretty down-to-earth and likeable. She doesn't put on airs or look at anyone as being beneath her. I love Charlene's continued obsession of rap music and her passion for wanting to share, especially with Lucy's upper crust mother. The love triangle possibility is still on the table and being explored but it doesn't overstep the death of Karen. I like how the romance is a subtlety that adds substance to the story without taking charge or undermining the death. All of the secondary characters are unique in their own way and believable. I enjoy both Connor and Butch's characters so much and know who I'm rooting for but you'll get no hints from me. Charles, the library cat is a delightful addition to the cast. I love that the library has a pet.

The story is well paced, enjoyable, and full of suspense. The author did a wonderful job describing the characters and scenery within the book. I was able to visualize the story as it played out. An enjoyable second book in the Lighthouse Library series, Booked for Trouble is engaging, doesn't divulge the suspect right away, and keeps the reader guessing. I'm really enjoying this series.

S. Warfield

Booked for Trouble is a great second installment!

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2015

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Sometimes I think that the author of this series, Eva Gates, read my mind and wrote these books just for me because I love libraries and lighthouses so much. Put the two together along with a great location and a few murders and it's the perfect formula for an all night read for me.

Lucy Richardson escaped her Boston society family and a fiance who was a bit too much of the upper class for her and started a new life as an assistant librarian in North Carolina's Bodie Island Lighthouse. It's the perfect job for her since she loves the beach, the casual feel of it and the lighthouse is both her workplace and her home. She and her cat, Charles, live on the fourth floor of the library in a small apartment that has become home to Lucy and that she loves. In this second book in the series, Lucy is quite surprised to see her mother come to visit her unannounced. Just what Lucy wanted! Her mother is bound and determined to convince her daughter to return to Boston to marry her ex-fiance, but Lucy has two potential love interests right where she is and where she plans on staying.

While there, Lucy's mother runs into a woman she went to high school with, Karen Kivas, and winds up in a major fight with her, harsh words being spoken. When Karen's body is found beside the lighthouse the obvious suspect that the police concentrate on is Lucy's mother. Lucy tries to help her mother maintain her innocence since she knows in her heart that her mom would never hurt or kill anyone.

Booked for Trouble is a very enjoyable cozy mystery with an extra bit of the mystery whisked in because of character Louise Jane's tales of the occult happenings in and around the library. Just an all around enjoyable book with delightful characters.

kittenmom

Great series

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020

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Thus has been a fun series to read! The setting -Outer Banks, NC - is a perfect, and even more wonderful, a library....in a lighthouse! The characters are interesting, and the mysterious deaths, this time, a local resident and book club member, found dead on the beach after a book club meeting. It helps to have read the first book in the series, but not necessary. Each book is a standalone mystery, but the characters evolve. A complicated “love” interest adds to the story..or at least a possible love interest. If you like books, libraries, and mysteries, you will enjoy this series.

Sunny

A library in a lighthouse on the Outer Banks, that's my idea of heaven!

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019

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I like Lucy and I love the idea of a library in a lighthouse. The descriptions of the library and the programs that they are having are wonderful. I love Lucy's Classics Book Club and how it is exposing people to books that they may not have read before. Although the book discussion is not a major part of the book, what happens afterwards is where the mystery begins. The characters are great and I really enjoy reading about them, and the mystery was well plotted and kept the reader guessing as to who the guilty party was up to the end.

astrid

Good second in a great series. But get the cat colors right!

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015

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Another delightful outing with a lighthouse, library and cat. Lucy is a likeable character, and the slowly developing story of the 2 men she is attracted to is also interesting. The plot was good and the killer unexpected. My one big complaint about this author is her trouble with colors.
She needs to look at the cover of her own book, which correctly shows the colors of the delightful seal point Himalayan cat, Charles. His body is white or tan. His face, legs, ears and tail are BROWN! (dark seal brown, hence the color name seal point) The author keeps calling his head tan and white. It is brown and white. She correctly calls his tail color brown, but in the excerpt from the next book in this series, she calls his tail color tan. In the first book of this series, she called his face, legs, ears and tail black. Come on, Eva, look up a picture of a seal point Himalayan, or even at the cover of your own book! The other trouble with color is the woman called Gray Lady. The first two times her eye color is called gray, and the next two times black. No human has black eyes. Some consistency would be nice. All in all, I'm looking forward to the next in this series.

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SUE, SHROPSHIRE

A REAL PAGE-TURNER - COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2017

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OMG - what a gripping novel. I read it in one sitting - simply couldn't put it down.

Lucy, the main character, is Librarian (and tenant) of a library housed in an old lighthouse. When a member of her book club is done in, Lucy sets about uncovering the truth, a quest made all the more urgent when the main suspect is her mother (who's visiting). The story is a real page-turner because the author writes in such an engaging way that holds one's attention and makes you eager to carry on reading.

Readers who like gentle whodunits (not graphically 'grizzly' murders) will love this book, and if you have read Jo Dereske's 'Helma Zukas' series and are clamouring for something similar, this series (of 3) will quench your thirst. (Note: if you are expecting the library cat (as featured on the cover) to be part of the 'discovery' process, it isn't. Cat literally just jumps up on people's laps etc so doesn't really play any part in the book). I'm so glad the other two are on their way from Amazon as I write. CAN'T WAIT!!!

Jennifer Fry

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2017

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Love these books

Nellie P

Most enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2016

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Really good series

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An entertaining mystery - highly recommended!

Reviewed in Canada on November 2, 2015

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The setting for this novel - a lighthouse on North Carolina's Outer Banks - was enough to draw me in to the story and I'm so glad it did. Lucy, the librarian, is an engaging character with a talent for solving deadly puzzles. Having fled the stuffy confines of Boston and her parent's attempt to match her up with a less than enticing potential fiancée, Lucy's just getting settled into her new community when her mother descends and an old friend of her mother's is murdered. This is just the start of an absorbing mystery and entertaining read. You know you're in experienced hands when the writing flows so well you lose track of time - I promise, you'll love this book!

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Herrlich !!!

Reviewed in Germany on October 22, 2017

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Dieses Buch Buch ist durch die familiären Verwicklungen der Hauptperson besonders ansprechend. Jeder kennt die Schwierigkeiten die Erwachsene mit ihren Eltern haben können dies wird hier sehr schön dargestellt und gibt der Story einen besonderen Touch.

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