The Murder at the Lighthouse

Author: Frances Evesham 

Pages: 186
Series: Exham on Sea Mysteries #1)
Genre: Mystery
First Published: September 2015
Book Description (from good reads): What would you do if you found a body under a lighthouse?
Love Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries, cosy crime, clever animals and cake, and Murder at the Lighthouse, the first in a fun series of mysteries set in a small English seaside town in Somerset, is for you.
The body on the beach throws Libby Forest's new life into turmoil. Everyone in town knows the dead woman under the lighthouse, but no one seems to care how or why she died. Only Libby believes someone murdered the ageing rock-star.
A woman talks to Libby. Then she, too, dies...
Discover how Exham on Sea's first female sleuth, helped by an enormous dog called Bear and an aloof marmalade cat, unpicks the clues to solve the mystery.
Amateur female sleuth Libby Forest arrives in the small town after years in a disastrous marriage, determined to build a new life making cakes and chocolates in Exham on Sea. She joins forces with the attractive but secretive Max Ramshore and risks the wrath of the townspeople as she pieces together the jigsaw to solve the mystery of Susie Bennett's death.

Things to consider:

  • Characters: 7.5 
    • We follow pretty much every small town cliche in the book, the newcomer that no one truly accepts, the old lady who is always snooping, the big drama of high school carried out to adulthood, etc. There are varied characters different ages and stages of life, but none are too explored really. 
  • Logic: 8.0
  • Plot: 7.0 
    • It is a very standard who did it kind of book but with a very amateur way of discovering it. It does not follow the police investigation and it is done in small bits of discoveries that seem to have nothing in common until the big reveal. I did not guess the big reveal really but it was not super impactful, it was simply a bit of a surprise and having the whole town there to witness the reveal was very dramatic.
  • Intrigue: 6.0 Writing Style: 7.0
    • This mystery has a very classical feel to it, you spend most of the time expecting to find out what really happened but you do not have an overwhelming need to find out. Maybe it's because it really is just a very short story so you keep getting this and that happening that make the story move along without really building up so much expectation. It feels like a fast-paced story.
    • It is a good story that has practically no romance, weird because it was building up to it and yet nothing. 
  • Intention: 7.5
    • The main lesson here is to not stay with your abusing husband I would guess. 
  • Enjoyment: 7.5
    • It was a good story to pass time, but nothing all that surprising or new. A nice option for a quick read. 
Total Score: 50.5
Average: 7.21
Star Rating: 3.0

This was not included in my TBR and was not used to accomplish any challenge, it was a just a random story I found in Scribd. 

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