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.
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.
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.
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.
The book’s description from the publisher’s website is: “On
a July afternoon, a young woman’s body is dredged from Sweden’s beautiful Lake
Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a
murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck
knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by
any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the
list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a
free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the
psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive–indeed, terrifying–sense of
propriety.”
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.
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday September 5, 2023. We will be discussing The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss. This is the first book in the Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, which features the daughters of some notorious literary figures.
The synopsis from the author’s website is, “Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders — and the bigger mystery of their own origins.
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’
death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue
in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a
murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his
capture . . . a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.
But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral
child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more
women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation:
Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.
When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a
secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their
past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the
monstrous.”
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
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday
August 8, 2023. We will be discussing, Finlay Donovan is Killing It by
Ellie Cosimano. Finlay is a single mother and author, struggling to make ends
meet when she is mistaken as someone else.
The synopsis from the author’s website is, “FINLAY DONOVAN
IS KILLING IT . . . except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her
literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling
her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair
duct-taped to her head.
When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new
novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and
inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make
ends meet . . . and she soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more
difficult than its fictional counterpart.”
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. This is a week later than usual due to the Police Department's National Night Out on August 1st at Notte Park.
Join the North Providence
Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. We will be discussing, The
Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill. This is the first book featuring Simon
Serrailler, a detective in a small English town.
The description from the
publisher’s website is “A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill in
Lafferton. The police have one lead - a pair of expensive cuff-links found in
her flat, with a mysterious note attached to them. Then a young girl, an old
man and even a dog disappear in quick succession in exactly the same place.
Young policewoman Freya Graffham and Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler are given
the task of unravelling the mystery. But can they find the Hill killer before
he strikes again?”
We will be meeting in the Second
Floor Meeting Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. We are meeting week later than usual
since the library will be closed on July 4th. For more information,
please see Sara at the Reference Desk.
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June
6, 2023. We will be discussing, A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller.
This is the first book featuring Belfa “Bell” Elkins, a county prosecutor in a
small West Virginia town.
The book description from the publisher’s website is,
“What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned
down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there
to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten
a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of
drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were
Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses
to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the
prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified
by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe
that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job.
After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged
relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good—in fact,
putting her own life in danger?”
We will be meeting at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting
Room and on Zoom. For more information and the Zoom link, see Sara at the
Reference Desk.
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 2, 2023 as we discuss Blind Goddess by Anne Holt. This is the first book featuring Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, an officer in the Oslo, Norway Police Department.
The book’s description from the author’s website is, “A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hans Olsen is murdered. The two deaths don’t seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Olsen defended the drug dealer. But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small-time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway – and even put her own life at risk…”
We will be
meeting at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting Room and on Zoom. For more
information, contact Sara at the Reference Desk.
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday,
April 4, 2023. We will be discussing The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector
Chopra. This book takes place in Mumbai, India, and is the first book in
the Baby Ganesh series, featuring recently retired Inspector Ashwin Chopra.
The book description from the author’s website is, “On the
day that he retires Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits not one but two unexpected
mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no
one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for
clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to
its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to
suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his
mysterious new ward than he has at first thought. For when the going gets
rough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs . . .”
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.
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 7, 2023. We will be discussing, The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. This is the first book in the Hidden Iceland series featuring Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police.
We will be meeting at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting
Room and on Zoom. For more information, and the Zoom link, contact Sara at the
Reference Desk
Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 7, 2023 when we will be discussing, The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie. This is the first book featuring Marine veteran Peter Ash, suffering with extreme claustrophobia after returning back from service in the Middle East.
The book description from the author’s website is, “Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” a crackling claustrophobia from post-traumatic stress that has driven him into the mountains, to sleep under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Peter returns to civilization to help the man’s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he’s ever encountered, and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives. As Peter begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined – and it may lead straight back to the world he thought he’d left for good.”
We will be
meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more
information, and the link to Zoom, ask for Sara at the Reference Desk.
