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.
Eve Gates has pulled out all the stops and written another fantastic page turner of a book!
We open with essential building works being done to the lighthouse (more to the point the foundations of the lighthouse!) when the contractor comes in requesting that Bertie (the library manager) comes outside, apparently the workmen have found something in the hole and they need Bertie to see it – she has claustrophobia though and so Lucy dons a hard hat and goes down to see, what they find is a box that has been buried under the foundations, when removed it turns out not to be that heavy and so it is easily transported into Bertie's office, when opened they find a leather bound journal, a crudely drawn map and a letter ….. in code!
Now various people want to get their hands on the map, the code and the journal, but no one expects one of them to end up well and truly dead in Bertie's office! and whilst the journal was still there the map and coded letter had gone, now everyone wants to crack the code (luckily Lucy and Charlene, the rare book and history librarian, had taken photographs), whilst Detective Watson just wants to nab the killer. Add in some history of displaced people, a potential new mega hotel and golf course and of course the upcoming historical society fun day and it is no wonder that Lucy just wants it all to be over!
An Interview With A Character
What is your full name?
Lucy Richardson
What is your Profession?
Librarian
What is your current favourite book or movie?
The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Also, anything by Kate Morton.
What is your go to comfort book or movie?
I’m a big Jane Austen fan and I love re-reading her books. At the Lighthouse Library we have a classic novel book club, and it’s always great to read those familiar old books again. This month we’re reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.
If someone was to play you in a movie who would it be? OR what would be the character you would want to be in a book?
I’d love to me a heroine in a Mary Stewart novel. Alone in Europe, sad, lonely, and then whisked away for adventure and romance
What is your ideal evening?
My boyfriend and I try to have a date night at least once a week. Our favorite place is Jake’s Seafood Bar in Nags Head North Carolina.
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
October 7 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW
October 7 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT – Sapphyria’s Books
October 8 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
October 8 – The Power of Words – REVIEW
October 8 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
October 9 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW, GUEST POST
October 9 – eBook Addicts – RECIPE POST
October 9 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
October 10 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
October 10 – Cozy Up WIth Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST
October 10 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
October 11 – The Bookwyrm’s Hoard – REVIEW
October 11 – Sapphyria’s Books – REVIEW
October 11 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
October 11 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
October 12 – T’s Stuff – SPOTLIGHT
October 12 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
October 12 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
October 13 – Brianne’s Book Reviews – REVIEW
October 13 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
October 14 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT
October 14 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW
October 15 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
October 15 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
October 15 – LibriAmoriMiei – REVIEW
October 16 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
October 16 – Diane Reviews Books – CHARACTER GUEST POST
October 17 – Curling up by the Fire – REVIEW
October 17 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
October 17 – Ascroft, eh? – GUEST POST
October 18 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
October 18 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIW
October 18 – Reading Authors – REVIEW
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