Deadly Ever After by Eva Gates (distant reading .txt) 📗

Within these books, the interior of the lighthouse is the product of my imagination. I like to think of it as my version of the TARDIS, from the TV show Doctor Who, or Hermione Granger’s beaded handbag: far larger inside than it appears from the outside.

I hope it is large enough for your imagination also.

Also available by Eva Gates

Lighthouse Library Mysteries

A Death Long Overdue

Read and Buried

Something Read, Something Dead

The Spook in the Stacks

Reading Up a Storm

Booked for Trouble

By Book or By Crook

Writing as Vicki Delany

Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries

A Curious Incident

There’s a Murder Afoot

A Scandal in Scarlet

The Cat of Baskervilles

Body on Baker Street

Elementary, She Read

Year-Round Christmas Mysteries

Dying in a Winter Wonderland

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Hark the Herald Angels Slay

We Wish You a Murderous Christmas

Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen

Ashley Grant Mysteries

Coral Reef Views

Blue Water Hues

White Sand Blues

Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

Unreasonable Doubt

Under Cold Stone

A Cold White Sun

Among the Departed

Negative Image

Winter of Secrets

Valley of the Lost

In the Shadow of the Glacier

Klondike Gold Rush Mysteries

Gold Web

Gold Mountain

Gold Fever

Gold Digger

Tea by the Sea Mysteries

Tea & Treachery

Also Available by Vicki Delany

More Than Sorrow

Murder at Lost Dog Lake

Burden of Memory

Scare the Light Away

Whiteout

Author Biography

Eva Gates is a national bestselling author who began her writing career as a Sunday writer: a single mother of three high-spirited daughters, with a full-time job as a computer programmer. Now she has more than twenty novels under her belt in the mystery genre, published under the name Vicki Delany. She lives in Ontario. This is her eighth Lighthouse Library mystery

This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2021 by Vicki Delany

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.

Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.

Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.

ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-64385-588-2

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-64385-589-9

Cover illustration by Joe Burleson

Printed in the United States.

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First Edition: May 2021

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