Lighthouse Library Mystery Reading Order: Eva Gates's Series

Eva Gates’s Lighthouse Library Mysteries are set in one of the dreamiest locations in cosy crime — a library housed in a historic lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where librarian Lucy Richardson sleuths between the stacks. Read in publication order.

The complete reading order

1. By Book or By Crook (2015)
2. Booked for Trouble (2015)
3. Reading Up a Storm (2016)
4. The Spook in the Stacks (2018)
5. Something Read, Something Dead (2019)
6. Read and Buried (2019)
7. A Death Long Overdue (2020)
8. Deadly Ever After (2021)
9. Death By Beach Read (2022)
10. Death Knells and Wedding Bells (2023)
11. The Stranger in the Library (2024)
12. Shot Through the Book (2025)

The series is best read in publication order.

Where to start

By Book or by Crook (book one). Atmospheric, bookish, and seaside-cosy.

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