Mystery Book Club

April Book Selection

2012-03-06T20:18:00.002-05:00

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on April 3, 2012 as we discuss A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill. This is the first book in the Andy Dalziel/Peter Pascoe mysteries. In this story, the police must find the killer of a woman whose husband was away playing rugby for his local club. There is now 24 books in this series. Sadly, the author, Reginald Hill passed away in January. He will be missed by fans of this series. Which was also made into a British television series.

March Book Selection

2012-02-07T20:03:00.004-05:00

On March 6, 2012, the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. This book introduces LAPD Detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The story opens with Harry being called to investigate a body found in a drainage pipe. Harry soon realizes things are not what they appear to be and finds himself up against the FBI.

February Book Selection

2012-01-03T19:54:00.003-05:00

The next meeting of the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be held on Tuesday February 7 at 7:00 pm in the Conference Room. We will be reading Gallows View by Peter Robinson. This story takes place in a small Yorkshire town where Inspector Banks moves his family after leaving London. This is the first of nineteen Inspector Banks novels.

January Book Selection

2011-12-06T20:12:00.003-05:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will meet next on Tuesday January 3, 2012. Come and join us as we discuss Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell. This is the first Kay Scarpetta mystery, which now is up to its 19th novel. This book was the winner of numerous awards.

December Book Selection

2011-11-01T20:17:00.006-04:00

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 6, 2011 as we discuss Murder in the Marais by Cara Black. This is the first book featuring Aimee Leduc, an investigator in Paris.

November Book Selection

2011-10-04T20:27:00.003-04:00

In anticipation of Sue Grafton's latest Kinsey Millhone novel, "V" is for Vengeance, The North Providence Mystery Book Club will be reading "A" is for Alibi. This series takes place in 1980's California. The book club will be meeting on Tuesday November 1, 2011 in the library's first floor conference room. Please join us.

October Book Selection

2011-09-06T20:07:00.003-04:00

Please join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday October 4, 2011 as we discuss Wine of Violence by Priscilla Royal. This is the first book featuring Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal. The setting for this book is a monastery on the east coast of England in the 1270s. It is reminiscent of Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael mysteries.

September Book Selection

2011-08-02T20:26:00.003-04:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will next meet on Tuesday September 6, 2011. The book we will be reading is The cat who could read backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun. This is the first book that features newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his cat KoKo. This book was first published in 1966, and the author wrote two more in the 1960s. She then returned to writing the series in the 1980s, stopping only a few years before her death last June.

CORRECTION FOR AUGUST

2011-07-15T12:17:00.002-04:00

Sorry, I made a mistake. The first Tuesday in August is the 2nd, not the 9th. The book club will meet on August 2nd at 7:00 PM in the library conference room.

August Book Selection

2011-07-05T20:09:00.005-04:00

Join us on Tuesday August 9, 2011 as the North Providence Mystery Book Club discusses The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths. This book introduces Ruth Galloway, a forensic archeologist in the Norfolk section of England. When not teaching students in the local university, Ruth helps out the local police force when bones are found in the local salt marsh. While the bones turn out to be from the iron age, Ruth helps solve a modern mystery. This book won the 2011 Edgar Award -Mary Higgins Clark Award from The Mystery Writers of America.

July Book Selection

2011-06-07T20:06:00.002-04:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis at it's July meeting. This book introduces the detective Wesley Peterson, who while solving modern day mysteries, is drawn into ancient mysteries by his archaeologist friend. The older mystery usually has a bearing on the newer one. Please join us on Tuesday July 5, 2011.

June Book Selection

2011-05-03T20:13:00.003-04:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will meet on June 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM. The book we will be reading is Snow Angels by James Thompson. This is the first book in the Inspector Vaara series. The book is set in Finland above the Arctic Circle during the month of December. The inspector must deal with a gruesome murder while dealing with days of total darkness.

May Book Selection

2011-04-05T19:56:00.003-04:00

The book selected for the May meeting of the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. This is the first title in the Flavia de Luce series. Read how a resourceful eleven year old girl with knowledge of chemistry and poison solves the murder of a stranger found in her family's garden. The book club will meet on May 3, 2011 at 7:00 pm in the conference room.

April Book Selection

2011-03-01T20:06:00.001-05:00

The next meeting of the Mystery Book Club will be on Tuesday April 5, 2011. We will read Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. This is the first book in the series featuring Inspector Bill Slider. Please join us.

March Book Selection

2011-02-03T10:03:00.002-05:00

Due to weather conditions, the library closed early on Tuesday February 1st, thereby canceling the Mystery Book Club. We will now be discussing Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne on March 1, 2011 instead. We usually read the first title in a series, so that people can go on to read later titles. So, if anyone has any suggestions for future discussion titles please let us know by either coming to the book club or emailing nprref@gmail.com with book suggestion as the subject.

February Book Selection

2011-01-04T20:21:00.002-05:00

The February book selection for the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne. This book is the first in the Sister Fidelma series. Sister Fildema is a religious sister/lawyer in Medieval Ireland.

January Book Selection

2010-12-07T20:06:00.002-05:00

The January book selection of the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters. This book is the first in the Brother Cadfael series, which takes place in a Benedictine Monastery in Shrewsbury, England during the 1100s. This series was shown on PBS, with Sir Derek Jacobi starring as Brother Cadfael.

December Books Selection

2010-11-09T20:11:00.002-05:00

The book we will be reading for the December meeting of the North Providence Mystery Book Club is Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs. This is the first Temperance Brennan mystery. Temperance is a forensic anthropologist working in Montreal. This series is the basis for the television program Bones.

November Book Selection

2010-10-05T20:10:00.003-04:00

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday November 9, 2010 at 7:00pm when we discuss the book, The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry. This book is the first in Anne Perry's William Monk series. Please note that we are meeting on the second Tuesday because the first Tuesday is election day.

October Book Selection

2010-09-07T20:11:00.004-04:00

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday October 5 at 7:00 pm in the library's conference room. We will discussing the book, Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. This book takes place in England during the reign of Henry II, who wants solved the gruesome murders of children in Cambridge. He asks for a master of the art of death (a forerunner of a modern medical examiner)but instead, is sent a mistress of the art of death. Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk.

September Book Selection

2010-08-03T20:01:00.003-04:00

On Tuesday, September 7, 2010 the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing The Shape of Water, by Andrea Camilleri. This is the first in a series of books featuring Inspector Montalbano, a Sicilian detective. Copies will be available at the Circulation Desk to check out.

August Book Selection

2010-07-13T19:49:00.003-04:00

On Tuesday August 3rd, the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing Self's punishment, by Bernhard Schlink. The story takes place in Germany of the 1980's. It is about private investigator Gerhard Self and how the case he has taken on makes him confront his past. There will be copies of the book held at the circulation desk. Ask for the Mystery Book Club book. If you have questions ask for me at the reference desk.

July Book Selection

2010-06-01T20:07:00.002-04:00

On Tuesday July 13th, the North Providence Mystery Book Club will discuss Haunted Ground by Erin Hart. This book takes place in Ireland. The characters are anthropologists who study preserved bodies found in peat bogs. Some of the bodies are very old, while they discover one that is not so old.

Book for the Month of June

2010-05-04T20:12:00.002-04:00

On Tuesday June 1st, 2010 the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes. This is the first book in the Superintendent Richard Jury series. Like Elizabeth George, Martha Grimes is an American writer whose books take place in England. Please join us on the 1st of June.

May Book Selection

2010-04-13T19:58:00.002-04:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will next meet on Tuesday May 4th at 7:00pm. We will be reading Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon. This story takes place in Venice Italy, and is the first book to feature Commissario Guido Brunetti. If you like reading mysteries, please join us.

April Mystery Book Club

2010-03-02T20:07:00.002-05:00

The April meeting of the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be held on April 13, 2010 (the second Tuesday of the month for April only). We will be reading A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. This is the first book in the Inspector Lynley/Sergeant Havers series.

March Book Selection

2010-02-02T19:54:00.003-05:00

The North Providence Mystery Book Club selection for the month of March will be The Alienist by Caleb Carr. This book includes, as one of the characters, Theodore Roosevelt, before he became President of the United States.
The book club will meet on March 2, 2010 in the Library's Conference Room.
Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Department, ask anyone at the desk for a copy of the Mystery Book Club book.

February Book Selection

2010-01-05T20:13:00.002-05:00

The February selection for the North Providence Mystery will be Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. There will be copies of the book available at the Circulation Department to check out. Ask for the Mystery Book Club book.

January Book Selection

2009-12-01T20:08:00.002-05:00

The Mystery Book Club selection for January 2010 will be One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. This is the first book in the Stephanie Plum series, in which there is a total of 15 titles. We will read how Stephanie starts out as a bounty hunter, and meet the crazy characters in her life. Have a happy holiday season.

December Book Selection

2009-11-03T19:51:00.004-05:00

We will be discussing Spiked by Mark Arsenault for the December meeting of the Mystery Book Club. We will be meeting on December 1, 2009 at 7:00 PM in the first floor conference room. If you would like to read this book, copies will be available at the circulation desk. Mark Arsenault is a local writer who was a reporter for the Providence Journal. He has a website http://www.markarsenault.net/.

Book for November

2009-10-06T19:53:00.003-04:00

Thank-you to the people who came to our first Mystery Book Club tonight.
Our next selection for the month of November will be Dissolution by C. J. Sansom. This story takes place during the time of Henry VIII, and the main character is Matthew Shardlake. If you like to read mysteries, please join us at the North Providence Library on November 3rd at 7:00 pm in the first floor conference room.

October Book

2009-09-10T11:27:00.000-04:00

The selection for the month of October will be Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. This is the first novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Mystery Book Club at the North Providence Library

2009-09-10T11:23:00.000-04:00

The North Providence Union Free Library is starting a Mystery Book Club. On the first Tuesday of each month we will gather at 7:00 pm to discuss mystery novels. We will read from the Golden Age to the present day. If you like mysteries, join us.