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Title	:	By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1)
Author	:	Eva Gates
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2015 by NAL
Categories	:	Mystery. Cozy Mystery. Fiction

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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 partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite.

Calling on her aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun—and some confections from her cousin Josie’s bakery—will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island.

Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery—and she’s not so sure there’s going to be a happy ending....

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Edition Language:	English
Series:	Lighthouse Library Mystery #1
Setting:	Bodie Island, North Carolina(United States)

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There's libraries. And, then there are charming libraries. And, they don't get much more quaint and charming than the Lighthouse Library on Bodie Island, North Carolina in Eva Gates' By Book or by Crook. This first in a new series will either make you want to move there to get a job in the library, or run, knowing the library is the scene of murder, theft, and possibly, ghosts.Lucy Richardson fled to the island after she didn't want to marry the lawyer and family friend she'd been dating for

I enjoyed the idea of a lighthouse being used as a library. If you're a Jane Austen fan, a library fan, and a lighthouse fan, this is the cozy for you!

I loved this first in a new series to me-the setting was terrific as it is one of my favorite places to stay and I have visited the Bodie Lighthouse before. The idea of it as a library and being able to live/work there too would be a fantasy come true! I enjoyed the cast of characters and hope to read more of them in the next book!

I had a bit of a hard time getting into this new series. The characters were fine but by page 20 I really wanted to smack one or two of them. As I continued reading I found myself drawn into their lives and the library they all love. I'm most definitely looking forward to reading the next book in the series when it arrives in September of 2015.

By Book or By Crook was book one in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series. It was okay; a bit clunky in some parts, but overall a fun cozy. I had no problems suspending disbelief at the notion of transforming real-life Bodie Lighthouse into a public library because author Eva Gates did provide a note addressing the issue. Also, her writing was convincing enough for me to buy into the idea.A promising series, started in 2015. I will definitely do some catch-up reading.

Meh. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it. It was just meh. Which is weird because I just read another series from the same author [using a different name] and L O V E D it, so I was really looking forward to this one. Sigh. HOW does one set of circumstances [love-triangle {WHICH is never okay}, the MC having a cop and a mayor to choose between etc etc] work for one series and NOT for another? Because there are a LOT of similarities between this book and the first book of her other series and