Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June
6, 2023. We will be discussing, A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller.
This is the first book featuring Belfa “Bell” Elkins, a county prosecutor in a
small West Virginia town.
The book description from the publisher’s website is,
“What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned
down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there
to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten
a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of
drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were
Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses
to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the
prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified
by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe
that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job.
After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged
relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good—in fact,
putting her own life in danger?”
We will be meeting at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting
Room and on Zoom. For more information and the Zoom link, see Sara at the
Reference Desk.
