April 2014 Selection

Join the North Providence  Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM as we discuss The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. This is the first book in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The book has fifteen year old Mary Russell meeting a retired Sherlock Holmes in Sussex, England and begins collaborating with him.
From the publisher's website: "In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young girl literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes--and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protege, and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. In their first case together, they  must track down a kidnapped American senator's daughter and confront a truly cunning adversary--a bomber who has set trip wires for the sleuths and who will stop at nothing to end their partnership. Full of brilliant deductions, disguises, and dangers, this this is the first book of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries."

March 2014 Selection

The North Providence Mystery Book Club will be meeting next on Tuesday March 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM in the library's first floor conference room. We will be reading, Goodnight Sweet Prince by David Dickinson. This is the first book in the Lord Powerscourt series. Powerscourt is an aristocratic detectvie from the time of Queen Victoria.
From the publisher's website: "The debut of aristocrat-investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt, who takes on investigations too delicate for the police. Prince Eddy is a notorious wastrel. But when he is found in his bedroom at Sandringham witth his throat cut, his father, King George V, decides that the crime must be concealed. The prince is said to have died of influenza. Lord Francis Powerscourt is secretly commissioned to find the killer, but there are so many who have reason to hate the debauched and vicious prince that the task is a hard one. It leads him across Europe to Venice, where amidst scandal and suicide, Powerscourt finally unravels the mystery." Join us on March 4th.

February 2014 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm as we discuss March Violets by Philip Kerr. This is the first novel featuring the private investigator Bernie Gunther. This book takes place in Berlin in 1936. Gunther investigates missing person cases, he is then asked to investigate the death of the daughter and son-in-law of an industrialist. The son-in-law was a member of the SS, and Gunther must deal with the Gestapo.

January 2014 Book Selection

   

Please join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday January 7, 2014 as we discuss Still Life by Louise Penny. This is the first book in the award winning Three Pines mysteries featuring Inspector Armand Gamache.
A summary from the large print edition: "Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team are called to the scene of a suspicious death int he rural village south of Montreal and yet a world away. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, has been found dead on Thanksgiving morning. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smell something foul this holiday season. Louise Penny's award-winning debut novel introduces the engaging Armand Gamache, who commands his forces with integrity, strength, and charm"                                                          

 Here is a link to past Mystery Book Club Selections:

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December 2013 Book Selection

Please join the North Providence Mystery Book club on December 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm as we discuss Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton. This is the first book in the Aunt Dimity series. 

"When Lori Shepherd was a little girl she used to lie in bed at night with a stuffed rabbit named Reginald and listen to her mother's stories of the indomitable Aunt Dimity, who lived in far-off England. But now Lori is a newly divorced, down-on-her-luck grownup, her mother is dead, and Lori's long since realized that Aunt Dimity was just a character in a comforting bedtime story.

Or was she? One day the bedraggled Lori is summoned from the latest of her dreadful temp jobs to the Dickensian law firm of Willis U Willis. There Willises Junior and Senior inform her that Aunt Dimity was indeed a real person--a very rich real person who's just died and left Lori a respectable bequest. Unfortunately, there's one catch: Lori must visit Aunt Dimity's English cottage and find a secret hidden among the treasure trove of letters written by her mother and Dimity over the four decades of their friendship.

What begins a fairy tale in a improbably cozy setting becomes a mystery--and a ghost story--as Aunt Dimity's gentle spirit leads Lori on an unotherworldly quest that Dimity could not fulfill in her own lifetime. And for Lori, Dimity's bequest is even greater than she dreamed, as she discovers that in this life, true love can conquer all."

November 2013 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday November 12, 2013 (second Tuesday of the month instead of the first) in the Trustee Conference Room on the Second Floor as we discuss The Black House by Peter May.  This is the first book in the Lewis Trilogy, featuring detective Fin Macleod.

“The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people’s fear of God.  But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.  Each year the island’s men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality.  For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice." See you on November 12th.