Mystery Book Discussion Group
Bring your lunch and join us the third Tuesday of the month from noon to 1 in the conference room on the second floor of the Main Library, at 361 Washington Street.
Copies of the book to be discussed will be available at the front desk 4 weeks before the meeting.
If you have any questions, please contact reference librarian Liz Mellett at (617) 730-2369 or via email.Deborah Crombie, Dreaming of the Bones
Sep 15, 2009 Main Library
Crombie has been nominated for virtually every major mystery award for her brilliant police procedurals featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, who are personally and professionally entwined. In this New York Times Notable Book, Duncan's ex-wife, a Cambridge biographer, asks for his help in proving that her current subject was not a suicide but was in fact murdered. Initially skeptical, he finds aspects of the case that arouse his own suspicions.
Donna Leon, Friends in High Places
Oct 20, 2009 Main Library
Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat looking into the lack of official approval for the construction of Brunetti's apartment years before. Annoyance turns to suspicion when the young man, clearly afraid of heights, is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into the dangerous areas of drug abuse and loan-sharking, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger.
Charles Todd, A Test of Wills
Nov 17, 2009 Main Library
Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard to fight in the Great War. In 1919 he is back, hiding the fact that he is suffering from shell shock from his superiors. Then he is assigned a case that promises to spell disaster. A popular retired military officer has been murdered, and the chief suspect is a much decorated war hero and a friend of the Prince of Wales. This impressive debut was an Anthony and Edgar nominee and a Barry Award winner for Best First Novel.
Donna Andrews, Six Geese a-Slaying
Dec 15, 2009 Main Library
Meg Langslow has been volunteered to organize the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The parade features a live nativity scene on a flatbed truck, the Three Wise Men on camels and Santa Claus in a horse-drawn sleigh, plus 12 drummers, 11 bagpipers, etc. Meg's job is already hard enough when her nephew Eric, wide-eyed and ashen-faced, whispers, "Meg, something's wrong with Santa". Andrews has won the Agatha, Anthony and Barry awards, and a Lefty for funniest mystery.
Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress
Jan 19, 2010 Main Library
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. He is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Winner of the Shamus for Best First Novel.