June 2023 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday June 6, 2023. We will be discussing, A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller. This is the first book featuring Belfa “Bell” Elkins, a county prosecutor in a small West Virginia town.

The book description from the publisher’s website is, “What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job.

After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good—in fact, putting her own life in danger?”

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

May 2023 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May 2, 2023 as we discuss Blind Goddess by Anne Holt. This is the first book featuring Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, an officer in the Oslo, Norway Police Department.

The book’s description from the author’s website is, “A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hans Olsen is murdered. The two deaths don’t seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Olsen defended the drug dealer. But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small-time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway – and even put her own life at risk…”

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

 

April 2023 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. We will be discussing The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra. This book takes place in Mumbai, India, and is the first book in the Baby Ganesh series, featuring recently retired Inspector Ashwin Chopra.

 

The book description from the author’s website is, “On the day that he retires Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits not one but two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his mysterious new ward than he has at first thought. For when the going gets rough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs . . .”

 

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

March 2023 Book Selection

 

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March 7, 2023. We will be discussing, The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. This is the first book in the Hidden Iceland series featuring Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police. 

 The book description from the author’s website is, “Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told to investigate a cold case of her choice, and she knows just the one. A young woman found dead on remote seaweed-covered rocks. A woman who was looking for asylum and found only a watery grave. Her death ruled a suicide after a cursory investigation. But Hulda soon realizes that there was something far darker to this case. This was not the only young woman to disappear around that time. And no one is telling the whole story. When her own force tries to put the brakes on the investigation Hulda has just days to discover the truth. Even if it means risking her own life . . .”

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

February 2023 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February 7, 2023 when we will be discussing, The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie. This is the first book featuring Marine veteran Peter Ash, suffering with extreme claustrophobia after returning back from service in the Middle East.

The book description from the author’s website is, “Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” a crackling claustrophobia from post-traumatic stress that has driven him into the mountains, to sleep under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Peter returns to civilization to help the man’s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he’s ever encountered, and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives. As Peter begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined – and it may lead straight back to the world he thought he’d left for good.”

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

 

January 2023 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday January 3, 2023. We will be discussing The Killings at Badger’s Drift by Caroline Graham. This is the first book featuring Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy. This book and others by Caroline Graham are the inspiration for the popular television series Midsomer Murders. 

The book synopsis is “The village of Badger's Drift is the essence of tranquility. But when resident and well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods, she stumbles across something she was never meant to see, and there's only one way to keep her quiet. Miss Simpson's death is not suspicious, say the villagers. But Miss Lucy Bellringer refuses to rest: her friend has been murdered. She is sure of it. She calls on Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to investigate, and it isn't long until the previously unseen seamy side of Badger's Drift is brought to light. But as old rivalries, past loves and new scandals surface, the next murder is not far away.”

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

 

December 2022 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday December 6, 2022. We will be discussing, the Case of the Dotty Dowager by Cathy Ace. This is the first book in the WISE Enquiries Agency series. The WISE Enquiries Agency is a group of four women from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England who combine their skills to investigate cases.

The book’s summary from the publisher’s website is “Henry Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is convinced his mother is losing her marbles. She claims to have seen a corpse on the dining-room floor, but all she has to prove it is a bloodied bobble hat.

Worried enough to retain the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency – one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish and one English – Henry wants the strange matter explained away. But the truth of what happened at the Chellingworth Estate, set in the rolling Welsh countryside near the quaint village of Anwen by Wye, is more complex, dangerous, and deadly, than anyone could have foreseen . . .”

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