Vicki Delany Books in Order

Lucy is finally at home in her lighthouse library job when her disapproving Boston socialite mother arrives determined to drag her back. After she publicly quarrels with an old rival who is found dead outside the library, Lucy must solve the case before her mother takes the blame.

When her Boston life collapses, rare books librarian Lucy Richardson flees to her aunt's home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and a new job at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. A stolen Jane Austen first edition and a murdered board chair soon make her the library's newest sleuth.

After a lively party at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, Lucy and library cat Charles see eerie lights luring a small boat onto the rocks. When one of the rescued sailors later turns up dead, Lucy has to untangle stormy secrets and motives along the Outer Banks shore.

Halloween brings more than ghost stories to the Lighthouse Library when a wealthy donor is found dead among the rare books he meant to give the town. As strange lights, phantom horses, and moving objects unsettle the staff, Lucy must learn what is haunting the building and who wanted the victim gone.

Repairs to the lighthouse's foundations uncover a Civil War diary, a coded map of the Outer Banks, and a rush of treasure hunters eager to claim it. When a local historian is murdered and the map disappears, Lucy races to crack the code before greed sparks more violence.

Lucy is helping her cousin Josie plan a simple winter wedding when pushy relatives sweep into town with bigger, splashier ideas. After ambitious cousin Mirabelle dies at a bridal shower held in the lighthouse library, suspicion lands on Josie and Lucy must expose a killer hiding among the wedding guests.

The Lighthouse Library hosts a reunion for director Bertie James's college classmates, complete with an exhibit of vintage library artifacts. When the former director is found floating dead near the pier, Lucy digs into old grudges and long buried scandals to catch a killer.

Lucy and Connor's beachside engagement party is crashed by her ex boyfriend and his formidable mother, who are determined to rekindle the match. When a dinner they host ends with a body outside the restaurant, Lucy has to protect her family, her future marriage, and her beloved lighthouse job.

Newly engaged and finally moved into their historic beach cottage, Lucy and Connor hope for quiet nights by the sea. Instead, strange noises, a rumored haunting, and the discovery of a dead man with ties to the house force Lucy to uncover long guarded family secrets.