Mystery

Mystery novels offer a shared experience for book club members.  Great discussions form around when members first saw how the clues added up to solve the mystery.  Similar to crime novels, mysteries are a game of strategy in which each character's moves are carefully crafted with the reader in mind.  A good mystery can give book clubs a much needed boost.  Add in the author, and watch your meeting come to life.  A great way to find your next mystery is to browse the pages of Book Club Reading List.   

Book Club Reading List sends out a quarterly book newsletter to book clubs.  Each newsletter includes authors who want to attend your net book club meeting by phone, Skype, or in-person to discuss their novels.  To find a book in this genre, follow the link below.  Select a title, read through the book's summary, and find the author's contact information.  It's that simple.  


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For your convenience, we've highlighted a few titles from Book Club Reading List below:


Death of the Couch Potato's Wife
City slicker turned suburbanite housewife Laura Berry isn’t taking well to life in her new neighborhood. She moved to follow her husband’s dream, and now she can’t tell if she’s clinically depressed or just bored half to death. But Boring becomes anything but when Laura discovers her neighbor Candace Flynn face up on a sofa with her hand buried in a snack bag. With a healthy dose of neighborly suspicion and street smarts, Laura sets out to find Flynn’s killer, but her curiosity becomes desperation when the killer targets Laura.





After the Auction
Journalist Lily Kovner, a 60 year old New York widow, attends an auction doing research for an assignment and sees an antique Italian Seder plate come to the block. Recognizing it as a treasure looted from her family by the Nazis more than 50 years earlier, she protests the sale of stolen property. This prompts the auction company officials to whisk it away.
 
Lily’s determined to recover the Seder plate and launches a search that extends to three continents. Along the way she confronts threats, a murder, a decades-old diabolical deal, betrayal, a previously unknown cousin AND new romance. A sequel to After the Auction–same main characters, similar theme–is due out in the spring of 2013. Title: The Lost Torah of Shanghai.




Lady Justice and the Book Club Murders
Members of the Midtown Book Club are found murdered. It is just the beginning of a series of deaths that lead Walt and Ox into the twisted world of a serial killer. In the late 1960′s, the Zodiac Killer claimed to have killed 37 people and was never caught — the perfect crime. Oscar Roach, dreamed of being the next serial killer to commit the perfect crime. He left a calling card with each of his victims — a mystery novel, resting in their blood-soaked hands. The media dubbed him ‘The Librarian’. Walt and the Kansas City Police are baffled by the cunning of this vicious killer and fear that he has indeed committed the perfect crime. Or did he? Walt and his wacky senior cohorts prove, once again, that life goes on in spite of the carnage around them. The perfect blend of murder, mayhem and merriment.







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