April 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 1, 2025 as we discuss, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. This is the first book featuring Ernest Cunningham, an Australian writer who takes his inspiration from the authors of the “Golden Age” of mystery writing. 

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.

I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE, My brother, my stepsister, my wife, my father, my mother, my sister-in-law, my uncle, my stepfather, my aunt, Me.”

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.

March 2025 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 4, 2025. We will be discussing, How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. This is the first book in the Castle Knoll series featuring aspiring writer Annie Adams.

  The book description from the publisher’s website is “It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.  In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?  As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.”

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 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. We will be discussing, The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman. This is the first book featuring Navajo Tribal Policeman Joe Leaphorn.

The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.”

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