March Book Selection

On March 6, 2012, the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be discussing The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. This book introduces LAPD Detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The story opens with Harry being called to investigate a body found in a drainage pipe. Harry soon realizes things are not what they appear to be and finds himself up against the FBI.

February Book Selection

The next meeting of the North Providence Mystery Book Club will be held on Tuesday February 7 at 7:00 pm in the Conference Room. We will be reading Gallows View by Peter Robinson. This story takes place in a small Yorkshire town where Inspector Banks moves his family after leaving London. This is the first of nineteen Inspector Banks novels.

January Book Selection

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will meet next on Tuesday January 3, 2012. Come and join us as we discuss Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell. This is the first Kay Scarpetta mystery, which now is up to its 19th novel. This book was the winner of numerous awards.

December Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 6, 2011 as we discuss Murder in the Marais by Cara Black. This is the first book featuring Aimee Leduc, an investigator in Paris.

November Book Selection

In anticipation of Sue Grafton's latest Kinsey Millhone novel, "V" is for Vengeance, The North Providence Mystery Book Club will be reading "A" is for Alibi. This series takes place in 1980's California. The book club will be meeting on Tuesday November 1, 2011 in the library's first floor conference room. Please join us.

October Book Selection

Please join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday October 4, 2011 as we discuss Wine of Violence by Priscilla Royal. This is the first book featuring Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal. The setting for this book is a monastery on the east coast of England in the 1270s. It is reminiscent of Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael mysteries.

September Book Selection

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will next meet on Tuesday September 6, 2011. The book we will be reading is The cat who could read backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun. This is the first book that features newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his cat KoKo. This book was first published in 1966, and the author wrote two more in the 1960s. She then returned to writing the series in the 1980s, stopping only a few years before her death last June.