May 2024 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 7, 2024 as we discuss, Death of Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen. This is the first book featuring Lady Montfort, taking place in Edwardian England. 

The summary from the publisher’s website is, “Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and class prejudice, is pointing towards her son as a potential suspect. Taking matters into her own hands, the rather over-imaginative countess enlists the help of her pragmatic housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, to investigate the case, track down the women that vanished the night of the murder, and clear her son's name. As the two women search for a runaway housemaid and a headstrong young woman, they unearth the hidden lives of Lady Montfort's close friends, servants and family and discover the identity of a murderer hiding in plain sight.”

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

April 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 2 2024. We will be discussing And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling. This is the first book featuring Deputy Sheriff Ben Packard.

The book description from the author’s website is: “When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector. Personal tragedy has sent former police officer Ben Packard back to the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake in search of a fresh start. Now a sheriff's deputy, Packard is leading the investigation into the missing teens, motivated by a family connection. As clues dry up and time runs out to save them, Packard is forced to reveal his own secrets and dig deep to uncover the dark past of the place he now calls home.”

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

 

March 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 5, 2024. We will be discussing Cold Tuscan Stone by David P. Wagner. This is the first book featuring Rick Montoya, an American translator living in Rome.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a gallery, ready to spend his days sipping wine and examining Roman artifacts to flush out burial urn traffickers. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee dies in a brutal fall from a high cliff. The local Commissario and his team consider Rick an amateur, and worse, a foreigner. And now they suspect him in the dead man's murder. While the Volterra squad pursues its leads, Rick continues to meeting his own suspects: a museum director, a top gallery owner, a low-profile import/export businessman and his enterprising color-coordinated assistant, and a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. As the murder mystery and the art trafficking heat up, has Rick's role made him the target of both cops and criminals?”

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 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 6, 2024. We will be discussing, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. This is the first in the Thursday Murder Club series, featuring four senior citizens living in a retirement village. The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Every Thursday, four unlikely friends meet in the Jigsaw Room at the luxurious Coopers Chase Retirement Village to solve cold cases that have been languishing on the books for years. There’s Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble wherever he can; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one is quite sure who she really is, but she’s definitely not a woman to underestimate. Though they may be in their seventies, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce, and Ron still have a few tricks up their sleeves. When a local property developer winds up dead, The Thursday Murder Club finds themselves in the middle of their first live case—can the four catch the killer before it’s too late?”  We will be meeting in the Second Floor Conference Room at 6:30 pm, and through Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk.

 

January 2024 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday January 2, 2024. We will be discussing, Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo. This is the first book featuring Kate Burkholder, Chief of Police in the small Ohio town which she grew up in as part of the Amish community.

 The book summary from the author’s website is, “Sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community of Painters Mill, Ohio. A young Amish girl, Katie Burkholder, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence, and for Katie, the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate Burkholder is back. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate for Chief of Police. She’s certain she’s come to terms with her past—until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to name him, she would betray both her family and her Amish past—and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.”

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

Enjoy the holidays.

 

December 2023 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 5, 2023. We will be discussing Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza. This is the first book featuring housewife Andie Stern and reporter Kenny Lee.

The book description from the author’s website is, “Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four (soon to be five) children in West Windsor, New Jersey. But one day, between soccer games, recitals, and trips to the local pool, a very pregnant Andie pulls into a gas station--and stumbles across a murder scene. An attendant has been killed, and the bumbling local cops are in way over their heads. Suddenly, Andie is obsessed with the case, and back on the trail of a killer, this time with kids in tow. She soon crosses paths with disgraced local journalist Kenneth Lee, who also has everything to prove in solving the case. A string of unusual occurrences—and, eventually, body parts—surface around town, and Andie and Kenneth uncover simmering racial tensions and a decades-old conspiracy.”

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

 

November 2023 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday November 7, 2023 as we discuss Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger. This is the first book in the Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor series set is a small Minnesota town.

The book description from the author’s website is, “Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752). Embittered over losing his job as a cop and over the marital meltdown that has separated him from his wife and children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago’s South Side, there’s not much that can shock him. But when a powerful local politician is brutally murdered the same night a young Indian boy goes missing, Cork takes on a harrowing case of corruption, conspiracy, and scandal. As a blizzard buries Aurora and an old medicine man warns of the arrival of a blood-thirsty mythic beast called the Windigo, Cork must dig for answers hard and fast before more people, among them those he loves, will die.”

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