Thursday, March 27, 2014
Blue Monday by Nicci French
Blue Monday (Frieda Klein #1) by Nicci French is the April book title for Booked to Death. Join us on April 23rd at 6:30 in the Upper Level Conference Room, Main Library.
Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Main Library's Circulation Desk.
Author's Website
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Rage Against the Dying (Book 1, Brigid Quinn series) by Becky Masterman
Author's Website
2014 Edgar Nominee - Best First Novel by an American Author
Shortlist - 2013 British CWA Gold Dagger Award
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
We're reading After the Funeral by Agatha Christie (Book #29 in the Hercule Poirot series) for our February 26th meeting.
Visit the Official Agatha Christie website for more information about the author and her books.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Gods of Gotham - November 20, 2013
Reading Group Guide
Book review from Browsing Bookshelves.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
We will be discussing Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn at our October 23rd meeting. Come join us!
Nominee: 2013 Edgar, Barry, Macavity and Anthony Awards"The plot has it all. I have no doubt that in a year's time I'm going to be saying this is my favorite novel of 2012." Kate Atkinson, author of Case Histories
Where: Main Library, 101 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 740.349.5553
When: 6:30 p.m. , Wednesday, October 23rd
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Join us for a discussion of Defending Jacob by William Landay at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Copies of the book are available to be checked out at the Newark Library's Circulation Desk.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly * The Boston Globe * Kansas City Star "A legal thriller that's comparable to classics such as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent . . . Tragic and shocking, Defending Jacob is sure to generate buzz."--Associated Press NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student....
Watch author interviews here.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
Author Bio
Thursday, June 27, 2013
White Heat by M. J. McGrath
Cool off by joining us for a discussion of White Heat by M. J. Grath. Set in the Canadian Artic, this is the first book in the Edie Kiglatuk series.
Author's Website
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, White Heat is the first book in the gripping Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, with "an Arctic setting so real it’ll give you frostbite" (Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder)
Thursday, May 23, 2013
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
The book for our June 26 meeting is In a Dry Season (#10, Inspector Banks series) by Peter Robinson.
"Peter Robinson, internationally acclaimed author of literary suspense, knows the serenity found in the rustic Yorkshire countryside can be deceptive. For evil can strike in the most pastoral of surroundings, and go unpunished for years-even decades.Water is the essence of life. Yet during a dry season, when supply cannot meet demand, the precious commodity rapidly drains from a manmade resevoir to reveal a forgotten town that was sacrificed for the sake of water.A blistering summer has struck, and thirst has consumed the resources provided by the Thornfield Resevoir, unmasking the remains of Hobbs End, a small village at its bottom that ceased to exist in post World War II England. A curious child thinks of the resurfaced hamlet as a mystical playground, until he unearths a human skeleton...."
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