This month, the Mystery Book Club will be discussing A Step Past Darkness, by Vera Kurian. There’s something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it’s not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off […]
Read more →This month, the Mystery Book Club will be discussing A Duty to the Dead, by Charles Todd. A Duty to the Dead introduces readers to an unforgettable new protagonist in an exceptional new series: Bess Crawford, a courageous World War I nurse and determined investigator. Once again the […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss Wrong Place, Wrong Time, by Gillian McAllister. Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken […]
Read more →Our December Combined Book Club meeting has been cancelled. Both of our book clubs will resume in January!
Read more →Join us as we discuss Dark August, by Katie Tallo. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother–her last living relative–has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss Murder Book, by Thomas Perry. When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a […]
Read more →Join us this June as our Mystery and Tuesday Book Clubs meet to discuss We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the […]
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Join us as we discuss The Other Half, by Charlotte Vassell. Who killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely? All the party-goers have alibis. […]
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Join us as we discuss The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner. It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San […]
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Join us as we discuss Secret Identity, by Alex Segura. It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t […]
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