Discussions will be led by Linda Trouten through June. Linda would like to encourage members to join the Mystery Book Club. The books we read are fun and discussions are lively!
All descriptions of the books are from their dust jackets or publishers.
Contact Linda for more information.
March 25, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
Vanishing Edge
by Claire Kells
The rugged landscape of Sequoia National Park is a challenge on the best of days—but when a park ranger discovers an abandoned exclusive campsite with an empty tent and high-end technical gear scattered on the shores of an alpine lake, the wilderness takes on a sinister new hue. Thirty-two-year-old Felicity Harland—a former FBI agent who left the service in the wake of a personal tragedy and has taken her skills off the grid—is brought in as chief investigator.
April 22, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
As 1940 England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary codebreaking machines and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Beth’s shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles.
May 27, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – location TBD
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
by Richard Osman
“In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There’s Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one is quite sure who she really is, but she’s definitely not a woman to underestimate. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?” –Publisher.
June 24, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – location TBD
Murder is in the Air: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
by Frances Brody
“North Yorkshire, 1930. It’s the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new life back into the business, brewers select a charismatic employee as local queen–to be the face of their industry. And this year’s queen, wages clerk Ruth Parnaby, has invited the ever-intrepid Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her on public engagements at a garden party thrown in her honor. But when Ruth leads children to the stables for pony rides, the drayman is missing, later found in the last place imaginable–the fermentation room, deceased. What looked to be a simple case of asphyxiation in the dangerous fermentation room is quickly clarified by the pathologist as murder.” –Publisher.
July 22, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – location TBD
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
“While visiting his family in Cornwall, Private Detective Cormoran Strike agrees to take on a cold case involving a woman who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974, and as Strike and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, investigate the disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer, and witnesses who cannot all be trusted.” –Publisher.
August 26, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – location TBD
Spirit Crossing
by William Kent Krueger
“The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman–but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim. –Publisher.
2022-2025 Book List
September 2022: Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
October 2022: A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
November 2022: Best in Snow by David Rosenfelt
January 2023: No Memes of Escape by Olivia Blacke
February 2023: The Maid by Nita Prose
March 2023: Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild
April 2023: Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O’Connor
May 2023: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
June 2023: Death of a Starling by Linda Norlander
July 2023: The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
August 2023: The Bangalore Detective Club by Harini Narendra
September 2023: The Local by Joey Hartstone
October 2023: Exiles by Jane Harper
November 2023: A Good Family by Matt Goldman
January 2024: The Zero Night by Brian Freeman
February 2024: Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
March 2024: Residue by Michael McGarrity
April 2024: Nowhere Street by Ron Handberg
May 2024: Murder Under a Red Moon A Bangalore Detectives Mystery by Harini Nagendra
June 2024: The White Lady: A Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
July 2024: Glory Be A Glory Broussard Mystery by Danielle Arceneaux
September 2024: The Sacred Bridge: A Novel by Anne Hillerman
October 2024: All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
November 2024: Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander
January 2025: Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens
February 2025: A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
Updated: 3/9/25