A Deadly Beach Read

Author : Eva Gates
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643859110
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death By Beach Read written by Eva Gates and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery. 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. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode. The first night Lucy’s alone in the house, with the company of Charles the library cat, she hears sounds. Investigating they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door to the outside is open. Lucy's reminded that the house is said to be haunted: forty years ago the teenage daughter of the owners fled in the night, and never again stepped foot inside her family home. But the sounds have an all-too-human origin and one evening Lucy and Connor find the dead body of a man they don’t even recognize in their kitchen. They soon realize he has a long-time connection to their house. Lucy's forced to find out what happened all those years ago and why it’s threatening her happiness today. Meanwhile, the Classic Novel Reading Club is reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne, a book about another old house full of secrets. Can Lucy find parallels to her own situation in Hawthorne’s fiction before the killer strikes again?

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593336127
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beach Read written by Emily Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION! "Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling."--Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Author : Molly Dox
Publisher : Molly Dox Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Deadly Beach Read written by Molly Dox and published by Molly Dox Books. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love a good beach read? A Deadly Beach Read is a fun, cozy mystery set on the New Jersey shoreline. Finding a dead body was the last thing Daisy expected. When the victim’s wife sees Daisy standing beside her husband’s lifeless body, chaos ensues and accusations fly. Her life is turned upside down, and now even the neighbors are getting in on the action. Forced to search for answers that nobody is willing to give, Daisy does her best to avoid going to jail for a crime she didn’t commit. With a bulls-eye on her back, and an over anxious cop hoping to solve his homicide investigation, she must match wits and outmaneuver both other suspects and an officer ready to arrest her. “A Deadly Beach Read” is a family-friendly story with no foul language, no sex, and no gore. (cozy mystery, cozy mysteries, cozy, cozies, cozy mystery series, mystery series, beach mystery, NJ mystery, mystery in New Jersey, mysteries)

Author : Maggie Blackburn
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643854399
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Bookshop of Murder written by Maggie Blackburn and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop—and a murder mystery—in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams Summer Merriweather’s career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder’s thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper’s pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack. Returning to Brigid’s Island, North Carolina, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell Beach Reads—her mom’s embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore—and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: “Sell the bookstore or die.” Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid’s Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there’s not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy’s beloved book club. But there are more suspects on Brigid’s Island than are dreamt of in the Bard’s darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can’t find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy’s worth of corpses—including her own.

Author : Maggie Blackburn
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643858335
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Seaside Murder written by Maggie Blackburn and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the holidays approach, bookstore owner Summer Merriwether learns a dark secret in this second volume of Maggie Blackburn's Beach Reads mystery series. There's no place like home for the holidays, even if home is sleepy, beachside Brigid's Island, NC. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers--and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late mother--a secret someone will kill to keep. When the local library hosts a cozy mystery panel discussion, Summer learns that one of the authors on the panel based her book on an actual murder that shook Brigid's Island thirty-five years before. Worse, she soon learns that her dearly missed mother, Hildy, took a disturbingly deep interest in the case, going so far as to collect clippings and keep a journal of the dark doings. This doesn't jibe with Summer's memories of her usually cheery mother at all. Tidings get worse when Summer learns of her long-lost biological family's involvement in the crime...and still worse when the life of the book's author is threatened. With the help of Hildy's plucky book club, Summer puts her scholarly smarts to work on protecting the cozy author and solving the decades-old murder. But this ghost from Christmas past may still be deadly in the present, and if she can't find the killer, Summer's future will be brief.

Author : Lou Beach
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547617941
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 420 Characters written by Lou Beach and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of fiction the length of Facebook status updates: “Just because a story is short, even really, really short, doesn’t mean it can’t contain multitudes.” —The New York Times Book Review Alternately surreal, funny, ominous, and lyrical, Lou Beach’s 420 Characters offers an experience as dazzling as any in contemporary fiction. Revealing worlds of meaning in single paragraphs, these crystalline miniature stories that began as Facebook status updates mark a new turn in an acclaimed artist and illustrator’s career. This ebook edition has been enhanced with original collages by the author and with exclusive audio of fifteen stories brilliantly read by legendary rock musician Dave Alvin, Golden Globe–winning actor Ian McShane, and Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. “A tiny book filled with tiny stories . . . Tragic, absurd, and sweet by turns, each snip of a story is a gem, able to hold its own against more standard-length fare.” —Flavorwire, A Must-Read Pick

Author : Molly Dox
Publisher : Molly Dox Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death at the Beach House written by Molly Dox and published by Molly Dox Books. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love a good cozy mystery? Jump into Death at the Beach House and enjoy a great weekend read. Daisy's tangled in a deadly investigation. After a friend dies and she's found at the scene, things aren't looking very good. Sure, Vera Madison could be a little salty, but did she deserve to die? Crabby, yes? Insulting? Oh, yeah. But when Daisy lost her parents in a deadly accident, it was Vera who was there for her. How could she forget? No way! She's determined to clear her name while finding justice for a dearly departed friend. Trapped in a beach house with other potential suspects, she needs to move quickly before she gets in any deeper! This family-friendly cozy mystery offers a fun cast of characters and a puzzle to solve. (cozy mystery, cozy, cozy mysteries, beach mystery, beach read, NJ, New Jersey, cozy mystery series)

Author : Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316419990
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer of '69 written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, while each of them hides a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.

Author : Ellery Adams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101477296
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Deadly Cliche written by Ellery Adams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus: a stick of butter with a knife through it, dolls with silver spoons in their mouths, a deck of cards with a missing queen. Olivia realizes each setup represents a cliché. And who better to decode the cliché clues than her Bayside Book Writers group?

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307476987
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Beach written by Nevil Shute and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....