July 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 1, 2025. We will be discussing IQ by Joe Ide. This is the first book featuring Isaiah Quintabe “IQ”, a high school dropout, who works as an unlicensed private detective to help people in his neighborhood.

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “A resident of one of LA’s toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood’s high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can’t or won’t touch. They call him IQ. He’s a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he’s forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it’s a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes.”

We will be meeting in the First Floor Conference Room and on Zoom at 6:30 pm. For more information, see Sara at the Reference Desk.

 

June 2025 Book Selection

 Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June 3, 2025 as we discuss A Rising Man by Abir Mukerjee. This is the first book featuring Captain Sam Wyndham, an English policeman who joins the Calcutta, India police force in the 1920s.

The book description from the author’s website is, “India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta’s police force.

He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note in his mouth warns the British to leave India – or else.

With the stability of the Empire under threat, Wyndham and Sergeant ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee must solve the case quickly. But there are some who will do anything to stop them…”

We will be meeting in the First Floor Conference Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, ask Sara at the Reference Desk.

May 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 6, 2025. We will be discussing, The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. This is the first book featuring Cormac Reilly, a detective in Galway, Ireland.

The book description from the author’s website is, “Responding to a call that took him to a decrepit country house, young Garda Cormac Reilly found two silent, neglected children – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lay dead upstairs. Since then Cormac’s had twenty high-flying years working as a detective in Dublin, and he’s come back to Galway for reasons of his own. As he struggles to navigate the politics of a new police station, Maude and Jack return to haunt him. What ties a recent suicide to that death from so long ago? And who among his new colleagues can Cormac really trust? Betrayal is at the heart of this unsettling small-town noir and the Ireland it portrays. In a country where the written law isn’t the only one, The Ruin asks who will protect you when the authorities can’t – or won’t.”

We will be meeting in the Conference Room and on Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk.

 

April 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 1, 2025 as we discuss, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. This is the first book featuring Ernest Cunningham, an Australian writer who takes his inspiration from the authors of the “Golden Age” of mystery writing. 

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.

I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE, My brother, my stepsister, my wife, my father, my mother, my sister-in-law, my uncle, my stepfather, my aunt, Me.”

We will be meeting in the First Floor Conference Room at 6:30 pm, and on Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk.

March 2025 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 4, 2025. We will be discussing, How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. This is the first book in the Castle Knoll series featuring aspiring writer Annie Adams.

  The book description from the publisher’s website is “It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.  In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?  As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, see Sara at the Reference Desk.

February 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. We will be discussing, The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman. This is the first book featuring Navajo Tribal Policeman Joe Leaphorn.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.”

We will be meeting in the either the Conference Room or Second Floor Meeting Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, see Sara at the Reference Desk.

 

January 2025 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 as we discuss, Dial “A” for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto. This is the first book featuring Meddelin (Meddy) Chan and her family.

The book description from the author’s website is: “What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers. But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?”

We will be meeting in the Conference Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, ask Sara at the Reference Desk.