Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Vicki Delany AKA Eva Gates!
Writes:
Cozy mysteries that are all about fun and community and good friends. And a murder or two to solve. Vicki is currently writing four cozy mystery series: The Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane, the Catskills Summer Resort Series for Penguin Random House, the Tea by the Sea mysteries for Kensington, and, as Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series for Crooked Lane books. Her newest book is the nineth in the hugely popular bestselling Lighthouse Library series, DEATH BY BEACH READ.
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?
About:
After writing three standalone novels of suspense, an eight-part police procedural series, a four book historical mystery series, and seven novellas for adult literacy (whew!) Vicki turned to the light side and is now enjoying creating plots that are pure escape, populated by fun and funny characters who love their friends, their family (some of the time), living a small-town life (most of the time), and working at a job they love (well, sometimes they love it). Women trying to get the most out of life and love and friendships, except for those pesky murders that keep popping up in their otherwise happy world.
In her own past life Vicki was a computer programmer and a systems analyst, skills from which she brings nothing at all to her cozy mysteries.
My ideal reader match for my latest book, DEATH BY BEACH READ, must love…
- Escaping from the ‘real’ world
- Laughing
- Small town settings and quirky characters
- A genuine ‘puzzle’ mystery
- A cat with attitude
- Visiting lighthouses
- Most importantly of all – a good beach
What to expect if we’re compatible:
- Fun
- Laughter
- Loveable (most of them anyway) characters
- A solid mystery
- A beach escape
- A huge backlist to get wrapped up in!
DEATH BY BEACH READ by Eva Gates
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?
Mystery Cozy | Mystery Culinary [Crooked Lane Books, On Sale: June 7, 2022, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9781643859101 / eISBN: 9781643859118]
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About Eva Gates
Eva Gates is also known as Canadian crime writer Vicki Delany.
Having taken early retirement from her job as a systems analyst, Vicki enjoys the rural life in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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