The North Providence Mystery Book Club will meet on Tuesday
August 4, 2020 at 7:00 pm. The book we will be discussing is Black Irish
by Stephan Talty. This is the first book featuring the detective “Abbie”
Kearney.
The synopsis from the publisher’s website is “Absalom
“Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted
daughter of a revered cop couldn’t keep Abbie’s troubled past from making her a
misfit in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo. And now,
despite a Harvard degree and a police detective’s badge, she still struggles to
earn the respect and trust of those she’s sworn to protect. But all that may
change, once the killing starts. When Jimmy Ryan’s mangled corpse is found in a
local church basement, this sadistic sacrilege sends a bone-deep chill through
the winter-whipped city. It also seems to send a message—one that Abbie believes
only the fiercely secretive citizens of the neighborhood known as “the County”
understand. But in a town ruled by an old-world code of silence and secrecy,
her search for answers is stonewalled at every turn, even by fellow cops. Only
when Abbie finds a lead at the Gaelic Club, where war stories, gossip, and
confidences flow as freely as the drink, do tongues begin to wag—with desperate
warnings and dire threats. And when the killer’s mysterious calling card
appears on her own doorstep, the hunt takes a shocking twist into her own
family’s past. As the grisly murders and grim revelations multiply, Abbie wages
a chilling battle of wits with a maniac who sees into her soul, and she swears
to expose the County’s hidden history—one bloody body at a time.”
Since the library may be closed to meetings, we will be
using the Zoom app.
