Read and Buried, Eva Gates
Read and Buried, Eva Gates
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Read and Buried
A Lighthouse Library Mystery

Author: Eva Gates

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating back to the Civil War. But if she can’t crack its code, she may end up read and buried.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. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War–era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks, accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code.The library is overrun by people clamoring to see the artifact. Later that night, Lucy and Connor McNeil find the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes inside the library. Clearly Jeremy was not the only one who broke into the library—the map and the coded page are missing.Lucy’s nemesis, Louise Jane McKaughnan, confesses to entering the library after closing to sneak a peek but denies seeing Jeremy—or his killer. 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. Meanwhile, the entire library staff and community become obsessed with trying to decode the page. But when the library has a second break in, it becomes clear that someone is determined to solve that code.

About Eva Gates

Eva Gates is a nationally bestselling author who began her writing career as a Sunday writer: a single mother of three high-spirited daughters, with a full-time job as a computer programmer. Now she has more than twenty novels under her belt in the mystery genre, published under the name Vicki Delany. She lives in Ontario. This is her fourth Lighthouse Library mystery.

About Elise Arsenault

Elise Arsenault is a classically trained actor, singer, and voice-over artist. She has worked throughout the country with various regional theaters, including Merrimack Rep, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Ivoryton Playhouse, Imagination Stage, and the Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian Institute. Elise holds a BA from George Mason University and received further training at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. Her performances have been praised as high-strung, versatile and full of flair.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 15, 2022

Read and Buried is the 6th Lighthouse Library Mystery written by Eva Gates. Construction has begun on the lighthouse, and during the excavation, a metal box is discovered. In the box is a strange diary and a map, but it quickly becomes the hot topic around the small Outer Banks town. It appears to b......more

Goodreads review by Julie on September 28, 2019

Read and Buried Author: Eva Gates I enjoy this series and read each book as soon as it comes out. I'm a North Carolinian...and it's set in one of my favorite spots on the NC coast -- Nag's Head! I've been to the tippy top of Bodie Lighthouse and gone out on the walkway. All 214 winding metal stairs. I......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on December 05, 2019

I am enjoying this series with a fun concept of a library in a lighthouse and a great setting in Nag's Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. What a great place it would be, to be able to live and work in a lighthouse as our resident librarian Lucy has the pleasure of working in the library and......more

Goodreads review by Ell on May 28, 2019

Great premise! A civil war-era diary, map and coded message are found at the construction site of the lighthouse library. It's not long before the map and the coded message are stolen, with a dead body left in the wake of the theft. What is the map? Who made it? Why a coded message? These are the an......more