Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 3, 2024. We will be discussing The Off-Islander by Peter Colt. This is the first book featuring Boston PI Andy Roark.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2nd Tuesday in August.
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.
