May 2025 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 6, 2025. We will be discussing, The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. This is the first book featuring Cormac Reilly, a detective in Galway, Ireland.

The book description from the author’s website is, “Responding to a call that took him to a decrepit country house, young Garda Cormac Reilly found two silent, neglected children – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lay dead upstairs. Since then Cormac’s had twenty high-flying years working as a detective in Dublin, and he’s come back to Galway for reasons of his own. As he struggles to navigate the politics of a new police station, Maude and Jack return to haunt him. What ties a recent suicide to that death from so long ago? And who among his new colleagues can Cormac really trust? Betrayal is at the heart of this unsettling small-town noir and the Ireland it portrays. In a country where the written law isn’t the only one, The Ruin asks who will protect you when the authorities can’t – or won’t.”

We will be meeting in the Conference Room and on Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk.