Mystery Books Club

2020 Mystery Readers Book Club

2/27/2020

Here's what we're reading for 2020!

We meet on the Third Thursday of the month, 6:30-7:45pm. Please join us!

Here's our zoom url! https://arizona.zoom.us/j/91340949627

We WERE meeting at the Martha Cooper Library, 1377 N. Catalina Ave. Hpefully we'll get back there soon!

1/16 Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark (humorous vampire mystery)

2/20 Leslie Budewitz Assault and Pepper (cozy, first in a series)

3/19 Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10 (twisty British cruise mystery)

4/16 Felix Francis Crisis (horse racing theme by Dick Francis’ son—he’s written 19 books in the franchise)

5/21 Craig Johnson An Obvious Fact (Western procedural)

6/18 Amanda Quick The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1930s Hollywood)

7/16 J.A. Jance Field of Bones (Sheriff Joanna Brady mystery)

8/20 Joe Ide IQ (East Long Beach detective)

9/17 Ragnar Johnasson The Darkness (atmospheric thriller)

10/15 Tarquin Hall Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (humorous mystery set in India)

11/19 Lou Berney November Road (thriller love story set against the JFK assassination)—it’s won lots of awards this year)

12/17 Wendall Thomas Drowned Under (zany travel-themed mystery)

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Dazieri's Kill the Father

9/23/2019

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I'm not sure if we enjoyed this title, but we had a lively discussion about the aspects of the novel we might have changed. Several, including myself, wanted to shorten it by at least 30%. Others wanted Colomba to be at least a little sympathetic. Despite these issues, we slogged our way through! We did appreciate an intricate plot (until it got carried away) and the interplay between Dante and Colomba.

My favorite line: (p. 174 on the mass market paperback edition): “Colomba, on the other hand, seemed to be a woman who used her gun for everything, even to open bottles at home.”

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Ordinary Grace

6/13/2019

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Krueger's tale takes us into the past--the story is told through the eyes of a man remembering his boyhood in the Midwest.

The novel swept the award circuit the year it was published, which was 2013. Most readers agree that it has a literary quality that makes the standalone a standout.

How did you feel about Frank Drum and his journey into the past?

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Mystery Book Club

6/13/2019

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What could be better than writing a good mystery? Reading one, of course!

At the Mostly Mysteries Book Club, we read fairly contemporary mysteries to celebrate engaging novels, analyze their popularity, and compare our reactions.

We meet at Mostly Books on the third Thursday of the month, 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.

6208 E Speedway,
Tucson, AZ 85712, (520) 571-0110.
(Monterrey Village)

For those who can, please join us! For those who can't, do peruse our reading list and share your reactions.

January 17th: Kellye Garrett, Hollywood Homicide (1st in series)

February 21st: MC Beaton, The Blood of an Englishman (late in series)

March 21st: Ellen Byron, Plantation Shudders (1st in series)

April 18th: Tim Hallinan, Crashed (1st in Junior Bender series)

May 16th: Robert Parker, The Professional

June 20: William Kent Kreuger, Ordinary Grace (standalone)

July 18: William Landon, Defending Jacob (standalone)

August 15: Nick Petrie, The Drifter

September 19: Sandrone Dazieri: Kill the Father (1st in series)

Oct 17: Kathy Reichs, Bones to Ashes (#10, forensic procedural)

Nov 21: James Ziskin, No Stone Unturned (2nd in Ellie Stone Mysteries)

Dec 19: Terry Shames, Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek (retired police chief)

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2020 Mysteries

We meet at the Martha Cooper Library in Tucson on the third Thursday of the month, 6:30-7:45. Come join us!

1/16 Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark (humorous vampire mystery)

2/20 Leslie Budewitz Assault and Pepper (cozy, first in a series)

3/19 Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10 (twisty British cruise mystery)

4/16 Felix Francis Crisis (horse racing theme by Dick Francis’ son—he’s written 19 books in the franchise)

5/21 Craig Johnson An Obvious Fact (Western procedural)

6/18 Amanda Quick The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1930s Hollywood)

7/16 J.A. Jance Field of Bones (Sheriff Joanna Brady mystery)

8/20 Joe Ide IQ (East Long Beach detective)

9/17 Ragnar Johnasson The Darkness (atmospheric thriller)

10/15 Tarquin Hall Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (humorous mystery set in India)

11/19 Lou Berney November Road (thriller love story set against the JFK assassination)—it’s won lots of awards this year)

12/17 Wendall Thomas Drowned Under (zany travel-themed mystery)

2019 MYSTERIES

1/17: Garrett, Hollywood Homicide

2/21: Beaton, The Blood of an Englishman

3/21: Byron, Plantation Shudders

4/18: Hallinan, Crashed

5/16: Parker, The Professional

6/20: Kreuger, Ordinary Grace

7/18: Landon, Defending Jacob

8/15: Petrie, The Drifter

9/19: Dazieri: Kill the Father

10/17: Reichs, Bones to Ashes

11/21: Ziskin, No Stone Unturned

12/19: Shames, Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek

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