July 2019 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 2, 2019. We will be discussing Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver. This is the first book featuring Amory Ames, a young woman stuck in a loveless marriage in 1930's Britain.

The synopsis from the publisher’s website is “Amory Ames, a wealthy young woman questioning her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo, is looking for a change. She accepts a request for help from her former fiancé, Gil Trent, not knowing that she’ll soon become embroiled in a murder investigation that will not only test her friendship with Gil, but also will upset the status quo with her husband.

Amory accompanies Gil to the luxurious Brightwell Hotel in an attempt to circumvent the marriage of his sister, Emmeline, to Rupert Howe a disreputable ladies man. There is more than her happiness at stake, however, when Rupert is murdered and Gil is arrested for the crime. Matters are further complicated by Milo’s unexpected arrival, and as the line between friend and foe becomes less clear, Amory must decide where her heart lies and catch the killer before she, too, becomes a victim.”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00 pm.

Author Talk Tonight

Tonight at 7:00 pm, Clare Mary Sweeney will be talking to the North Providence Mystery Book Club about her mystery series set in South Kingstown. It will be held in the Community Room on the first floor of the library. It will be open to all.

June 2019 Book Selection

Please join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June 4, 2019, as we listen to author Claremary P. Sweeney discuss her mystery series set in South County, and other books. Her first book in this series is Last Train to Kingston. As the title suggests, this story begins at the Kingston Train Station where a body is discovered, and the subsequent investigation around the village of Kingston.

The description from the author’s website is “On a chill November night, Dorothea Lorimar arrives from New York City to the village of Kingston, Rhode Island.  She patiently waits for someone to meet her, unaware it will be her killer.  What has brought her here? Who is waiting for her alone in the cold darkness? And why would anyone want to murder this gentle recluse?  South Kingstown’s Detective Lieutenant Kara Langley and her team must find the answers and catch the person responsible for this disquieting death in the village once affectionately known as Little Rest.”

We will be meeting in the Community Room at 7:00 PM. Please join us in welcoming Claremary P. Sweeney, and learn how a writer develops plots and characters. All are welcome.

May 2019 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 7, 2019. We will be discussing The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth J. Duncan. This is the first book featuring Penny Brannigan, a Canadian expatriate, who years earlier while hiking through the Welsh countryside, fell in love with the area and stayed. The book begins with her mourning the death of her closest friend. She then provides manicures for members of a wedding party. When the bride goes missing and Penny notices something odd at her friend’s funeral, she gets involved with the investigation.

The description from the author’s website is “The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day—and turns up dead.

The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people—including those on the guest list—had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core…”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00 pm.

April 2019 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 2, 2019. We will be discussing, The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg. This is the first book featuring writer Erica Falck and police officer Patrik Hedstrom taking place in Fjallbacka, Sweden.

The synopsis from the publisher’s website is “Returning to her hometown of Fjallbacka after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life.

Erica conceives a book about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will answer questions about their own shared past. While her interest grows into an obsession, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case. But it is only when they start working together that the truth begins to emerge about a small town with a deeply disturbing past.”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00 pm.

March 2019 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 5, 2019. We will be discussing Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle. This is the first book in the Bibliophile Mystery series featuring Brooklyn Wainwright, a book restorer who works to solve the murder of her mentor.

The synopsis from the author’s website is “Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer.

On the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying in a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abraham leaves Brooklyn with a cryptic message, "Remember the Devil," and gives her a priceless—and supposedly cursed—copy of Goethe's Faust for safekeeping.

Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to Derek Stone, the humorless—and annoyingly attractive—British security agent who found her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice and save her own life...”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00 pm.

February 2019 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 5, 2019. We will be discussing The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith. This is the first book featuring Isabel Dalhousie, and is set in Scotland. Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of the No. 1 Women’s Detective Agency series.
The summary from the publisher’s website is “Isabel Dalhousie is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. A highly intelligent single woman who edits a philosophy journal, she is also a person of irrepressible curiosity. So when she witnesses a young man fall to his death from the balcony of Edinburgh’s main concert hall, she sets out to discover whether he was pushed or whether, as the police have concluded, he fell. Despite the advice of her housekeeper, Grace, who has been raised in the values of traditional Edinburgh, and her niece, Cat, who, if you ask Isabel, is dating the wrong man, Isabel is determined to find the truth—if indeed there is one—behind the man’s death. Her investigation, pursued in an informal fashion, leads her into the realm of secret deals and private greed among a few members of Edinburgh’s investment-banking community. While she pursues information about the likely suspects, Isabel engages in delightfully thorny debates, with herself and others, about the possible outcomes of moral choices along the way.”
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00 pm.