Everyone is welcome! Books to be read are chosen by the group members.

Books chosen are slightly older popular titles so that we can order multiple copies from the MORE system and no book purchase is necessary to participate. For more info: Rebecca 684-3813.

AFTERNOON GROUP:     Thurs., June 20^th, 1:00^pm

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death   by M. C. Beatty

  Join us for a lighter read as we finally receive some summer weather!   This “cozy mystery” features a senior lady who is sharp-tongued and not at all gentle.  Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely in England’s scenic Cotswald Region. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest:  Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town.  But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry—but falls over dead!
After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth… Agatha has never baked a thing in her life!  In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie.  Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes.  Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death?  It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner’s tag on her toe…

M.C. BEATON has been called the “new Agatha Christie”.  She has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries. She is also the author of over 100 romance titles and a series of romantic suspense, The Edwardian Mystery Series. M. C. Beaton lives in a Cotswold cottage with her husband.   

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Evening Group:    Tuesday, May 28, 7:00 pm
Promise Not To Tell, by Jennifer McMahon

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered--a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del--shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"--was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways.