The May Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on 
Thursday May 9th @ 6 pm to discuss 

"The Drop" by Michael Connolly

"Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

 

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.

Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.

Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department". 

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April 2013

The April Mystery Book Discussion on Thursday April 11th @ 6 pm 

will feature 

"Justice" by Faye Kellerman

"It’s Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead.

LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard.

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects—and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done".

You can read about the book and request it here.

For more information on Decker and Lazarus novels by Faye Kellerman, use this link.

The March mystery discussion group will meet on
 Thursday March 14th @ 6 pm at 199 Park Road Extension to discuss  

"Look Again" by Lisa Scottoline.

The story opens with Ellen Gleeson finding a missing child's postcard in her mail. One of the children, Timothy, looks almost exactly like her own adopted son, Will. Are the two boys the same child or is it a strange coincidence?  Join Ellen on her journey to discover the truth behind the disappearance of Timmy and the identity of Will's birth parents. 

Request the book here.

Video courtesy of MacmillanUSA

Due to our temporary relocation to Middlebury Timex Building at Park Road Extension, our book discussion meetings have been postponed. We anticipate resuming regular programming in March.

Please check back frequently for news of our next book and meeting information.