LibraryAware October 2020 Issue

Mystery Book Discussion Group

October 2020

NORTH AMERICA THEME

TITLES REVIEWED AT THE OCTOBER MEETING

The James Joyce murder
by Amanda Cross

Professor and amateur detective Kate Fansler searches for the murderer of a neighborhood pest, in a case involving an unpublished manuscript by Joyce

Miss Melville rides a tiger
by Evelyn E. Smith

Asked by loathed schoolmate Begum of Gandistan to join the board of the Rundle Home for Wayward Girls, high-class killer Susan Melville becomes involved in an international dispute and a bizarre and deadly chase. Reprint.

Sunburn
by Laurence Shames

Fool's paradise
by Mike Lupica

Surprised by the murder of a man he met the night before at an AA meeting, Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone follows leads to one of the wealthiest families in town to identify the victim and his mysterious agenda.

Four Hands
by II Taibo, Paco Ignacio

Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

The life we bury
by Allen Eskens

Book Annotation

One was a soldier
by Julia Spencer-Fleming

A latest entry in a series by the Agatha Award-winning author of In the Bleak Midwinter finds five Iraq veterans struggling to adjust to life after brutal tours of service, an effort complicated by permanent injuries, PTSD and the murder of one of their number. Reprint. A best-selling book.

The holdout : a novel
by Graham Moore

A woman is wrongly implicated in a murder one decade after convincing the members of a deadlocked jury to return a not-guilty verdict. By the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game.

Next to last stand
by Craig Johnson

Walt Longmire visits the 7th Calvalry Headquarters of 1946 Fort Bliss, Texas to investigate links between a fatal heart attack, a fire that has destroyed a high-profile work of American art and a shoebox containing a million dollars.

The blessing way
by Tony Hillerman

Witchcraft appears to be involved in the death of an Indian whose body was found in Many Ruins Canyon and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is charged with the task of solving the crime

ONLINE RECOMMENDATIONS

Bloody Scotland 2020

https://bloodyscotland.com

13 Commandments, Masterpiece

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.76b0224a-d65f-c2f2-bc33-980d368b54c0?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvc_masterpiece&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvc_masterpiece-20

Stop, You're Killing Me! mystery newsletter

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com

NEXT MEETING

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 10, 2020

6 pm

THEME: SOUTH AMERICA

Read a mystery that takes place in South America, is by a South American author, or is in any way related to South America

Register online

https://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/library-calendar/

virtual meeting will be held on Zoom