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Adult Book
Discussion Group
2009-2010
Second Thursday of the Month
6:30 - 8 p.m.
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Mystery Series
2010-20011
Second Monday of the month
12 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Carole Shmurak is the
book discussion leader. She is Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut
State
University and the author of ten books, including two Susan Lombardi
mysteries, Deadmistress and Death by Committee. As Carroll
Thomas, she is the co-author of the Matty Trescott series, one of which (Ring
Out Wild Bells) was nominated for the Agatha for best young adult
mystery of 2001. She has just finished her third Susan Lombardi mystery,
Death at Hilliard High (due out in 2009).
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Fall 2010: These are a Few of My Favorite Things
Some books
just dont fit into a theme. Here are four recent favorites three
of which are major award-winners that are hard to categorize but
highly original and clever mysteries. And one comes, quite
literally, very close to home.
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September 13 |
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (1990)
David Handler |
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October 11 |
The
False Inspector Dew (1982)
Peter Lovesey
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November 8 |
Motherless
Brooklyn (2000) Jonathan Lethem |
December 13
(snow date: Tues., Dec. 14) |
Suspense (1998)
Parnell
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Spring 2011: Well-Schooled in Murder
The
academic mystery has a long history within the genre, dating back to
the early 1900s. Here are five more recent ones, including a couple
that may get you expelled from school for uncontrolled laughter. |
January 10
(snow date: Tues., Jan. 11) |
School
for Murder
(1984)
Robert
Barnard |
February 14
(snow date: Tues., Feb. 15) |
Murder
is Academic
(1985)
P.M. Carlson |
March 14
(snow date: Tues., March 15) |
The
Mark Twain Murders (1989) Edith Skom |
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April 11 |
Matricide
at St. Marthas
(1995)
Ruth
Dudley Edwards |
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May 9 |
The
Edith Wharton Murders
(1997)
Lev
Raphael |
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