November 2026 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday November 3, 2026. We will be discussing The Scent of Murder by Kylie Logan. This is the first book featuring Jazz Ramsey, a school administrator who trains cadaver dogs.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She owns her own home in one of Cleveland’s most diverse, artsy, and interesting neighborhoods. She has a job she likes as an administrative assistant at an all-girls school, and a volunteer interest she’s passionate about—Jazz is a cadaver dog handler. Jazz is working with Luther, a cadaver dog in training. Luther is still learning cadaver work, so Jazz is putting him through his paces at an abandoned building that will soon be turned into pricey condos. When Luther signals a find, Jazz is stunned to see the body of a young woman who is dressed in black and wearing the kind of make-up and jewelry Jazz used to see on the Goth kids back in high school. She’s even more shocked when she realizes that beneath the tattoos and the piercings and all that pale make up is a familiar face. The lead detective on the case is an old lover, and the murdered woman is a former student. Jazz finds herself sucked into the case, obsessed with learning the truth.”

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.

 

October 2026 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday October 6, 2026. We will be discussing, Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead. This is the first book featuring Joseph Spector, who is a retired stage magician who helps the police with challenging crimes.

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions?

Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist’s patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets―or motives for murder. When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize that the crime wave will become even more deadly unless they can catch the culprit soon.”

We will be meeting at 6:30 pm. For more information, and the Zoom link if interested, see Sara at the Reference Desk.

September 2026 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday September 1 2026. We will be discussing My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni. This is the first book featuring Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite who goes back to her hometown after her sister’s remains are found. 

The book description from the author’s website is, “Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah's disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn't believe that Edmund House-a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah's murder-is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.
When Sarah's remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she s been seeking. As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past and open the door to deadly danger.”

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

 

August 2026 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday August 4, 2026. We will be discussing The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett. This is the first book that features Queen Elizabeth II acting as a detective along with her private secretary.

The book synopsis from the author’s website is, “On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will go for a ride, carry out all her royal duties... and solve a murder. The morning after a ‘dine and sleep’ at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a dressing-gown cord around his neck. When the police and MI5 begin to suspect her loyal servants, Her Majesty is certain they are looking in the wrong place. For the Queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her teenage years. Away from the public eye, she has a brilliant, secret knack for solving crimes. With her household's happiness on the line, can she and her trusted assistant private secretary, Rozie, catch the killer, without getting caught themselves?”

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

July 2026 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 7, 2026. We will be reading The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey. This is the first book featuring Peter Diamond, an old school detective who is reluctant to embrace new technology. 

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol.  In order to solve the mystery of the “Lady in the Lake,” Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a woman unjustly accused of murder.”

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

 

June 2026 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. We will be discussing, Field of Blood by Denise Mina. This is the first book featuring Paddy Meehan, a girl from Glasgow in the early 1980s, who wants to be a journalist at a male dominated newspaper. 

The synopsis from the author’s website is, “Paddy Meehan has just started her new job as a copygirl at a Glasgow newspaper, where she dreams of becoming an investigative journalist.

A child goes missing in the city, taken from the front garden of his home - and the investigation leads the police to the doors of two young boys.

She starts looking into the case of the missing child but, unlike everyone else, does not believe the boys acted on their own. Convinced there is more to it than this, she begins to ask some very awkward questions.

But Paddy's investigation has repercussions she never anticipated. Shunned by those closest to her, she finds herself dangerously alone...”

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

 

May 2026 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 5, 2026. We will be discussing, Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman. This is the first book, which takes place in 1920’s New York, featuring Vivian Kelly, who becomes an amateur detective to help her friends at the Nightingale, a speakeasy.

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in the music. No one asks where she came from or how much money she has. No one bats an eye if she flirts with men or women as long as she can keep up on the dance floor. At The Nightingale, Vivian forgets the dangers of Prohibition-era New York and finds a place that feels like home. But then she discovers a body behind the club, and those dangers come knocking. Caught in a police raid at the Nightingale, Vivian discovers that the dead man wasn't the nameless bootlegger he first appeared. With too many people assuming she knows more about the crime than she does, Vivian finds herself caught between the dangers of the New York's underground and the world of the city's wealthy and careless, where money can hide any sin and the lives of the poor are considered disposable...including Vivian's own.”

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