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  • Mystery Book Club Title for February
    Mystery Book Club Title for February
    December 17, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer […]...
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  • December Combined Book Club Title
    December Combined Book Club Title
    November 13, 2024 by
    Join both the Tuesday Book Discussion and the Mystery Book Club, as we wrap up the year with Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for November
    Mystery Book Club Title for November
    October 10, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss These Toxic Things, by Rachel Howzell Hall. Mickie Lambert creates “digital scrapbooks” for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren’t forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman’s […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for October
    Mystery Book Club Title for October
    September 6, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Every Man a King, by Walter Mosley. In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning “master of craft and narrative,” Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he’s asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for September
    Mystery Book Club Title for September
    August 13, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Harm Done, by Ruth Rendell. The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for August
    Mystery Book Club Title for August
    July 11, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Dead of Winter, by Stephen Mack Jones. A shadowy Detroit real estate billionaire. A ruthless fixer. A successful Mexicantown family business in their crosshairs. Gentrification has never been bloodier. Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit’s Mexicantown for over thirty […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for July
    Mystery Book Club Title for July
    June 4, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Slow Horses, by Mick Herron. London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. […]...
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  • Combined Book Club Title for June
    Combined Book Club Title for June
    May 29, 2024 by
    Join us as the Mystery Book Club and Tuesday Book Club meet to discuss The Maid, by Nita Prose. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying […]...
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  • Mystery Book Club Title for March
    Mystery Book Club Title for March
    February 20, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Cutting Season, by Attica Locke. The American South in the twenty-first century. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. So much history. And a dead body. Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation […]...
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  • Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    May 19, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss The Guest List, by Lucy Foley. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine […]...
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  • The March Mystery Book Club Selection
    The March Mystery Book Club Selection
    February 16, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss The Likeness, by Tana French! Still traumatized by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, […]...
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  • The February Mystery Book Club Selection
    The February Mystery Book Club Selection
    January 21, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing every happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old […]...
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  • The January Mystery Book Club Selection
    The January Mystery Book Club Selection
    January 5, 2023 by
        We had an interesting discussion the other night, January 19th: Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.  We felt that he is an excellent writer, and for writers at that time, one well thought of.   Although the discussion centered around the time period and the environment […]...
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  • Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    November 26, 2022 by
    To celebrate the Holiday Season, The Mystery Book Club and the Tuesday Book Discussion Group are holding a joint session on Wednesday, December 21st at 6:30. It is being held at the BarrelHouse on Route 81 in Killingworth. Two self published authors, both Killingworth residents, will discuss […]...
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  • The November Mystery Book Club Selection
    The November Mystery Book Club Selection
    October 31, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers–Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, […]...
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