Eva Gates

A new librarian’s first day goes terribly wrong when she finds a dead body on the front steps of the library.

Lucy and Connor planned for the perfect Outer Banks wedding—and that’s what they got. Aside from typical rumblings of familial tensions, the late spring weather allowed for a beautiful day, the food was delicious, and everyone had a good time, until one of the guests goes missing....

It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home, at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. But then a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode....

They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library....

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....

When an impressionist art show comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. But the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.

In the twelfth of this bookish mystery series, Lucy McNeil is back on the case—caught between an intrusive fan club, squabbling authors, and a politically ruthless widow.