August 2022 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday August 9, 2022. We will be reading A Cold Case by Peter Turnbull. This book features retired constable Maurice Mundy, who has started a job with a cold case squad.

The book summary from the publisher’s website is “Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard’s Cold Case Review Team. Ten years ago a twelve-year-old boy was murdered, his body left floating in a nearby pond. A second look at the case soon reveals that a sex worker was also murdered nearby on the same night. While nothing linked the two murders at the time, it is one of a number of attacks on sex workers over a twenty-year period that Essex Police are still investigating as part of Operation Moonlight. Known as a loose cannon who doesn’t always play by the rules, Mundy is in danger of ruffling more than a few feathers as he probes deeper into the events of that fateful night. Will his maverick approach lead him to the truth, or will it prove to be a dangerous step too far?”

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

July 2022 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 5, 2022. We will be discussing, Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler. This is the first book featuring Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Division of the London Metropolitan Police.

The book description from the author’s website is, “In this, the very first case, when Arthur Bryant is blown up in his office and all that’s left of him is his false teeth, his partner John May looks for clues to his death. The hunt takes him back through the years to the unit’s foundation, the worst day of the blitz, and a murder investigation in the Palace Theatre, where an outrageous production of Orpheus in the Underworld is being staged, and where the principle dancer has been found without her feet. Everyone in the theatre is a suspect. Soon there are more bizarre deaths, and as our argumentative young detectives track their elusive quarry through the blackout, the fog and the bombs, they unwittingly follow the pattern of the play, chasing Orpheus to Hades.”

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

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.