November 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday November 12, 2024. We will be discussing, A Rip through Time by Kelley Armstrong. This is the first book featuring Canadian Detective Mallory Atkinson who somehow goes from 2019 Edinburgh to 1869 Edinburgh. 

The book description from the author’s website is: “May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it’s too late.”

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. We will be meeting on the 2nd Tuesday because the library will be closed on the 1st Tuesday.

 

October 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday October 1, 2024. We will be discussing The Man in the Queue. This is the first book by Josephine Tey, written during the “Golden Age of British Mysteries” featuring Inspector Alan Grant.

The book description from a publisher’s website is: “In 1920s London, the packed queue for the city’s most popular musical comedy is growing impatient. When the theatre doors open at last and the crowd surges forward, a man falls to the ground, dead-silently stabbed with a stiletto. Who killed him before melting away unseen into the night? As Inspector Alan Grant investigates, the mystery turns into a breathless manhunt leading from London all the way to the Scottish highlands and back, before at last a truth is revealed that shocks even the canny detective himself.”

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.

 

September 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday September 3, 2024. We will be discussing Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings. This is the first book featuring Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto Police Department, which is the basis for the long running Canadian television series, Murdoch Mysteries.

The book description from the author’s website is: “In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to pursue every lead and reveal the truth. Although influential people pressure the police to solve the mystery quickly, when the girl is eventually identified, it becomes clear that those connected with her life have secrets to hide. Murdoch must use every detective skill he possesses as well as his understanding of human nature as he pursues the mystery through both brothels and drawing rooms, desperate to untangle the case before more lives are lost.”

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.

August Book Club Meeting Cancelled

 Due to the postponement of the National Night Out, the library will be closing early on August 13th. The book club will not be  meeting. The next meeting will be September 3rd.

August 2024 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday August 13, 2024*. We will be discussing Eeny Meeny by M. J. Arlidge. This is the first book featuring Detective Inspector Helen Grace.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive.

It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them.

Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense….”

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.

*We will be meeting on the 2^nd Tuesday in August.

July 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 2, 2024. We will be discussing The Dragon Man by Garry Disher. This is the first in the Peninsula Crimes series featuring Inspector Hal Challis.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been imprisoned for the past eight years for attempted murder. His.”

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

 

June 2024 Book Selection

 Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June 11, 2024*. We will be discussing, The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. This is the first book featuring Perveen Mistry, a female lawyer in Bombay, India in the 1920s.

The book description from the author’s website is: “Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with an Oxford, legal education, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women’s legal rights.

Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn’t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women’s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.”

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

*We will be meeting on the second Tuesday for the month of June.*