The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is shoring up it’s foundation and during the work an old diary is found buried in the earth. It appears to be a woman’s diary of the weather, but then again there is a map and mysteriously coded message as well. The local historical society wants to review the journal as does the history department at the local university. But Bertie locks the diary away for the evening and invites everyone back the next day to review the journal.

Jeremey Hughes, head of the historical society, and someone else decide they can’t wait and break into the library to get t heir hands on the journal. When Lucy and Connor come home from a date, Charles the cat draw their attention to Bertie’s office where they find Jeremy’s body and find the map and coded message gone.

What the treasure might be is unknown, but everyone seems to have a guess as to what it might be. Firmly deciding NOT to get involved in this case, Lucy ends up asking questions and trying to solve the code before finally figuring out who killed Jeremy and breaking the code.

Another great entry in the Lighthouse Library series! I love how local history is woven into the story and ties into modern day families who have lived on the island for a very long time. A super sixth installment that leaves you wanting more and looking forward to the seventh book.

Lucy is once again deeply involved in a murder and a mystery when a tin box containing an old dairy is found beneath the lighthouse during repair work. Inside the diary are a hand drawn map and a page written in code. Everyone wants to try their hand at breaking the code, not least the head of the historical society who breaks into the library after hours and whose body is found in the head librarian's office--where her desk was broken into and the map and code page are missing. It's a merry dance as everyone tries their hand at code breaking, even as planning continues for the Settler's Day celebration. Strategic clues are placed in the narrative so that there are no surprises when they finally do find the murderer and break the code. An interesting plot with good pacing.

Taking up where the last book left off, we see librarian Lucy become involved in another puzzler to solve. At the end of the last book, they had discovered a huge crack in the foundation of the library. While fixing it, the workman find a mysterious box, which begins our librarian's newest situation. The origins of the contents of the box are not immediately obvious which leads to a lot of speculation and quite possibly the newest body. Lucy gets caught up in trying to solve the puzzle of the box and what it means. During the book, there are parallels drawn with the book club's latest selection, The Journey to the Center of the Earth. Lucy solves the mystery with help from a surprising person. The book is an entertaining read, with lots of well developed characters. You are drawn in and interested in what happens to them. I did figure out who did it before the big reveal but only because I was paying attention. I do have to say, please tell the author the difference between currant/current and discreet/discrete. They are not interchangable.

Eva Gates
Read and Buried.
Loved this book my favourite so far.
The description of the lighthouse full of books is my kind of place.
Plenty of suspects in the killing of Jeremy Hughes who broke into the library looking for the map to buried treasure.
Lucy goes sleuthing to solve this mystery.
Great read love the characters
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for advance copy for a honest review.
Can’t wait for the next book.

Read and Buried is a great mystery with wonderful characters. I loved the storyline and location. I would recommend this book for other people to read.

I really enjoy reading the books in this series.
The idea of a library in a lighthouse is fun and the characters are easy to relate to.
This book involved a buried treasure and murder, and kept me guessing until the end.

Art imitates life as a book group reads Journey to the Center of the Earth, and a group of workers attempting to repair the foundation under the Bodie Island Lighthouse finds a treasure. Inside a tin box, librarian Lucy Richardson finds a Civil War era diary and what looks like what might be a treasure map. Needless to say, the news spreads fast and everyone wants a gander at the map. But excitement turns to terror when Lucy finds the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes in the library. Jeremy wasn’t the only one to break into the library, because it appears the killer made off with the map. With plenty of suspects, Lucy is determined to find the killer and the missing map. I love this series, the location is so cool, I wish my library was inside a lighthouse!