CrimeReads Book Club is for the mystery and thriller lovers! Join us this month for Susie Steiner's suspenseful and keenly observed, Missing, Presumed. The first in the DS Manon Bradshaw series, Steiner's book is a brilliantly twisting novel of how we seek connection, grant forgiveness, and reveal the truth about who we are.
February's book for discussion, The Bookseller by Mark Pryor, is the first in the Hugo Marston series. Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of […]
CrimeReads Book Club is discussing the Maid by Nita Prose this month. The Maid is a Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, it explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.
This month's CrimeRead discussion is The Searcher by Tana French. Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever. Then a local boy appeals to him for help. […]
CrimeReads Book Club will be discussing Daniel Stashower's American Demon - Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper. An Edgar Award Winning Author! Location: The Collegedale Public Library Meeting Room "Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Lawrence Block’s Beggars Can’t Be Choosers! Location: The Collegedale Public Library Meeting Room Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming. A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak. NATIONAL BESTSELLER · OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER “I loved it." —Stephen King From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, […]
We Were Never Here” by Andrea Bartz is an involving domestic thriller; there are not too many surprises for anyone who reads a lot in the genre, but a tight plot and taut pacing makes it hard to put down. Kristen and Emily have been best friends since college. Both had solitary upbringings, and they […]
Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey. Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field—and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to […]
“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every […]
