Book Groups

 


Adult Book
Discussion Group
2009-2010

Second Thursday of the Month
6:30 - 8 p.m.



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).

Fall 2010:  These are a Few of My Favorite Things    

          Some books just don’t 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.             

September 13   The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (1990) – David Handler
October 11  The False Inspector Dew (1982) – Peter Lovesey    
November 8  Motherless Brooklyn (2000) – Jonathan Lethem
December 13
(snow date: Tues., Dec. 14)
  Suspense (1998) –  Parnell Hall
  
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
April 11  Matricide at St. Martha’s  (1995) – Ruth Dudley Edwards
May 9  The Edith Wharton Murders (1997) – Lev Raphael

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