June 2022 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June 7, 2022, as we welcome local author D.G. Gillespie. D.G. Gillespie is a writing professor at a local college, and has written a series of mystery novels featuring Matthew Diggerson, a professor at a small New England college.

The first book in the series is Rules to Die By. In this book, Diggerson looks into the murder of a colleague. The book synopsis is, "When murder occurs on a New England small-college campus, Professor Matthew Diggerson turns from composition instructor to sleuth, uncovering clues and offering essay-writing "rules" along the way. As the killer watches and plans, Digger finds help from colleagues and students, from a height-deprived detective and even his mother, and especially from his loyal canine companion, Simba."

We will be meeting in the Community Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. All are welcome to attend. For more information please see Sara at the Reference Desk.

For more information about the author, visit the website https://dggillespie.wixsite.com/dggillespie 

May 2022 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. We will be discussing The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison. This book, set in a Chinese prison camp in Tibet, is the first one featuring Detective Shan Tao Yun.

The description from the author’s website is--“When a headless corpse is found on a remote Tibetan mountainside, veteran inspector Shan Tao Yun is the perfect candidate to solve the crime–except he’s been stripped of rank and imprisoned in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before the arrival of high-profile American tourists, the district commander grants Shan a temporary release. The embittered but brilliant Shan soon discovers the victim was notorious for persecuting Tibetan priests. When Party officials try to thwart Shan’s investigation by arresting an innocent monk, Shan is thrown into a maelstrom of political and religious intrigue. His search for justice takes him from an American mining project in Tibet to a secret, illegal monastery. Gradually, Shan exposes a massive crime machine that can only be stopped with the help of an unlikely alliance of Americans, aged monks, and even a sorcerer. “

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

April 2022 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 5, 2022. We will be discussing, Angel at Troublesome Creek by Mignon F. Ballard. This is the first book featuring Augusta Goodnight, a guardian angel who comes to earth to help people.

The book description from the publisher’s website is “When Mary George Murphy finds that her Aunt Caroline fell down a flight of stairs to her death, she's heartbroken. To make matters worse, Mary is sure that Caroline's death was no accident. Enter Augusta Goodnight, Mary's guardian angel. Normally assigned to Heaven's strawberry fields, Augusta died during WWII -- which explains her old-fashioned glamour and love of swing. She appears in Troublesome Creek just in the nick of time-helping Mary unearth an old mystery and the truth about Caroline's death.”

We will meet at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting Room and on Zoom. For more information, and the Zoom Link, ask for Sara at the Reference Desk.

March 2022 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 1, 2022. We will be reading Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O’Connor. This is the first book in the Irish Village mystery series featuring Siobhán O’Sullivan.

The book description from the publisher’s website is “In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors and share a cup o’ tea. But murder has a way of killing business . . . 

Nowadays Siobhán O’Sullivan, along with her five siblings, runs the family bistro named for their mother. It’s been a rough year for the O’Sullivans, but it’s about to get rougher. One morning, as they’re opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O’Sullivans, and their business in danger of being shunned, it’s up to feisty redheaded Siobhán to solve the crime and save her beloved brood.”

We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting room at 6:30 and also on Zoom. For more information and meeting link, contact Sara at the Reference Desk.

February 2022 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 1, 2022. We will be reading Irene by Pierre LeMaitre. This is the first book featuring Camille Verhoeven, a commandant with a Parisian crime squad.

The book description from the publisher’s website is, THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK

For Commandant Camille Verhœven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.

HE’S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEAD

But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When his team discovers that the killer has form – and each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel – the Parisian press are quick to coin a nickname . . . The Novelist.

HE HATES HAPPY ENDINGS

With the public eye fixed on both hunter and hunted, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner. The one who has the least to lose.”

We will meet at 6:30 pm in the Second Floor Meeting Room and by Zoom. For more information, and the Zoom link, contact Sara at the Reference Desk.

January 2022 Book Selection

 Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday January 4, 2022. We will be discussing Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt. This is the first book featuring defense lawyer Andy Carpenter.

The book description from the author’s website is,” Attorney Andy Carpenter’s legal maneuvers are legion in and out of the courtrooms of Paterson, New Jersey. A talented lawyer who knows how to play all the cards, he is torn between mending a marriage that no longer works and growing attached to a beautiful, no-nonsense private investigator. Besides his love for sports, Andy also adores Tara, a golden retriever clearly smarter than half the lawyers who clog the courts of Passaic County.

Then one day the fun stops.

It all begins when Andy’s father, venerated ex-district attorney Nelson Carpenter, asks him to take the appeals case of Willie Miller, a young black man on death row for the murder of a white woman. Nelson himself had prosecuted Miller but refuses to disclose why he wants Andy to represent the convicted man. A few days later, Nelson drops dead in front of his son at a game in Yankee Stadium.

Suddenly Andy finds himself the inheritor of a staggering fortune he never knew his father had. The astonished advocate soon unearths a mysterious old photograph of a much younger Nelson, a picture that may have a sinister connection to the Willie Miller case. But before he can sort out the truth behind his father’s life and death, Andy receives an anonymous threat — delivered in a most terrifying fashion.

Now the quick witted Andy, with his client’s life hanging in the balance, must uncover a decades-old secret, one so shocking and unthinkable as to threaten everything he believes in and everyone he has ever loved. Caught in an explosive endgame, he will face the heat of a deadly political firestorm…where the wrong move will close out his case for good.”

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

December 2021 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 7, 2021. We will be discussing The Dry by Jane Harper. This is the first book featuring Aaron Falk, a federal agent in Australia.

 The synopsis from the author’s website is, “Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well…

When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge.

And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds start bleeding into fresh ones. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret… A secret Falk thought long-buried… A secret which Luke’s death starts to bring to the surface...”

We will meet in the Community Room at 6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, and the link, contact Sara at the Reference Desk.