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Mystery Book Club The Mystery Book Club meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in the Library's William C. Wetzel Reading Room, except the December meeting, which will be held in the Community Room. New members are welcome at any time. Ask a librarian at the Reference Desk to receive your copy of the book. See below for details about the titles we'll discuss in 2018.
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Past crimes
by Glen Erik Hamilton
When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, an Army Ranger plunges into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer and uncover a shocking family secret.
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Inherit the bones
by Emily Littlejohn
While investigating a traveling circus, detective Gemma Monroe discovers that a murdered clown is actually the mayor¡s missing son and must trace back a chain of events that began nearly 40 years ago.
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Bury your dead
by Louise Penny
Taking leave during Quebec’s Winter Carnival after a case gone wrong, a disgruntled Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is unable to avoid assisting a politically charged investigation involving a historian’s murder during a search for a famous figure’s burial site. By the Agatha Award-winning author A Fatal Grace.
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Styx & Stone : an Ellie Stone mystery
by James W. Ziskin
When Ellie Stone returns to New York after receiving news of a brutal assault on her estranged father, a renowned Dante scholar, she begins to suspect that it is more than a robbery when another professor turns up dead
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Celine : a novel
by Peter Heller
Establishing an excellent record as a missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who would keep the case unsolved. By the best-selling author of The Dog Stars.
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The dry : a novel
by Jane Harper
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century. A first novel.
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Little Elvises : a Junior Bender mystery
by Timothy Hallinan
Bullied into proving the innocence of an aging music industry mogul who has been accused of murdering a tabloid journalist, Los Angeles burglar-turned-private investigator Junior Bender finds the case complicated by the victim's attractive widow, the disappearance of his landlady's daughter and his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
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Mr. Churchill's secretary : a novel
by Susan Elia MacNeal
After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the unfettered access her position demands to try to unravel a plot to assassinate Churchill himself. A first novel. Original. 12,500 first printing.
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Where it hurts
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Losing everything in a single shattering moment, former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy reluctantly agrees to help an ex-con who would solve a family member's murder. By the Shamus Award-winning author of the Moe Prager series.
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Body in the Belfry
by Katherine Hall Page
Ex-New Yorker Faith Fairchild copes not only with the culture shock of the Massachusetts village in which she, her minister husband, and their baby have settled, but also with the shock of finding a woman's body in the church's belfry. Agatha Award winner. Reissue.
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Though not dead
by Dana Stabenow
Inheriting a homestead from her late uncle, a stunned Kate Shugak receives a cryptic letter from him imploring her to discover his father’s fate, a mystery involving a priceless tribal artifact for which Kate is targeted by murderous attacks. By the Edgar Award-winning author of A Night Too Dark.
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