Read to Death at the Lakeside Library (A Lakeside Library Mystery)
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Read to Death at the Lakeside Library is the third installment in the A Lakeside Library Mystery series set in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin and featuring Rain Wilmot owner of the Lakeside Library and her best friend Julia Reynolds. Summer has come to the lakeside community and Rain is looking forward to spending time boating and swimming in addition to her library duties. Rain has decided to bring back her mother's summer book club and the first book up for discussion is A Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie.
The first club meeting doesn't go exactly as planned with some of the ladies drinking a little too much and others getting into a squabble about a drowning years earlier and Lily Redlin ends up leaving early. The next day Rain and Julia feel bad about the way the evening ended so they decide to go down the lake to visit Lily's new home. Unfortunately, when they arrive they find Lily dead and further investigation reveals she was killed by Visine in her drink, the same way the character in the Christie book was killed.
As Rain and Julia set out to find a killer they are faced with figuring out if Lily was killed because she knew too much about the decades old drowning or did she in fact have a long lost manuscript written by Laura Ingalls Wilder as she claimed. The ladies discover that Lily had been raised in a foster home but had recently been contacted by an attorney who states that a long lost relative had left her his estate. Did this sudden windfall have anything to do with her death?
A great setting, a fun cast of characters and the addition of a rescue canine make for a wonderful read. In solving one murder the ladies also find the answer to the earlier drowning. Plus, things are definitely heating up between Rain and Jace, Julia's brother and readers will be touched with the care and concern the ladies show towards Marge as her memory begins to decline.
The first club meeting doesn't go exactly as planned with some of the ladies drinking a little too much and others getting into a squabble about a drowning years earlier and Lily Redlin ends up leaving early. The next day Rain and Julia feel bad about the way the evening ended so they decide to go down the lake to visit Lily's new home. Unfortunately, when they arrive they find Lily dead and further investigation reveals she was killed by Visine in her drink, the same way the character in the Christie book was killed.
As Rain and Julia set out to find a killer they are faced with figuring out if Lily was killed because she knew too much about the decades old drowning or did she in fact have a long lost manuscript written by Laura Ingalls Wilder as she claimed. The ladies discover that Lily had been raised in a foster home but had recently been contacted by an attorney who states that a long lost relative had left her his estate. Did this sudden windfall have anything to do with her death?
A great setting, a fun cast of characters and the addition of a rescue canine make for a wonderful read. In solving one murder the ladies also find the answer to the earlier drowning. Plus, things are definitely heating up between Rain and Jace, Julia's brother and readers will be touched with the care and concern the ladies show towards Marge as her memory begins to decline.
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