Puss Reboots: Blog: June 2024: The Stranger in the Library

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The Stranger in the Library: 06/26/24

The Stranger in the Library by Eva Gates and Elise Arsenault (Narrator) (2024) is the eleventh book in the Lighthouse Library mystery series. Lucy has been busy putting together an art show celebrating obvious copies and fan pieces of famous artwork to coincide with a traveling Impressionist show that has a stop in Nags Head.

After the reception for the library show things get weird. A painting, a known copy by the brother of a famous Nags Head Impressionist, goes missing. Then at the reception for the actual art show, a man is found dead. Are the two crimes related and how or why?

Of course they are. But not in an obvious way. The puzzle here is a little more complex than art theft / murder mysteries I've read. Despite that, this book has a similar vibe to another mystery I've read recently, Prologue to Murder by Lauren Elliott (2019). Both involve historic objects, a modern day murder, and a threat to the protagonist.

Five stars