The Spook In the Stacks / Eva Gates - 3***

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I shoulda read this one in October for Fall Flurries ...


The Spook In the Stacks – Eva Gates
Digital audiobook narrated by Elise Arsenault
3***

Book number four in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series. Lucy Richardson is the librarian for the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library of the coast of North Carolina. In this episode the Bodie Island Library is vying with a university library for a collection of North Carolina historical documents, when the potential benefactor, a wealthy businessman, is found dead in the library during a Halloween program.

What can I say? It’s a cozy mystery with a leading lady who, despite her completely amateur standing, simply HAS to investigate. Her romantic interest (sorta) is the town’s Mayor, who naturally cautions her to stay out of it. On the other hand, there’s her cat, Charles Dickens, who frequently points Lucy to an important clue. Her main foil, however, is Louise Jane, a young woman who is determined to insinuate herself into library business, as a volunteer if necessary, since they will not put her on the board. Let’s just say that her interests in the paranormal and ghost stories fit perfectly with a Halloween theme.

A fun, fast, enjoyable cozy mystery.

Elise Arsenault does an adequate job of narrating, though the voices she uses for the men are laughably over-the-top.


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