Book Group

2023 Reading List

• Jan 18, 2023: Malice by Keigo Higashino [Mary Miskowiec]
• Feb 15, 2023: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley [Kathie Newby]
• Mar 15, 2023: Silverview by John Le Carré [Carolyn Lane]
• Apr 19, 2023: The Secret History by Donna Tartt [Eileen Rella]
• May 17, 2023: Celine by Peter Heller [Geri Ethan]
• Jun 21, 2023: Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara [Kate Derie]
• Jul 19, 2023: Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron [Geri Ethan]
• Aug 16, 2023: State of Terror by Louise Penny & Hillary Clinton [Susan Foster]
• Sep 20, 2023: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin [Laura Taylor]
• Oct 18, 2023: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva [Petra Bahr]
• Nov 15, 2023: Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham [Kathie Newby]

Past Reading Lists

2022

• January: Ann Holt, 1222
• February: Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
• March: Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows
• April: Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog
• May: Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
• June: Lisa Sandlin, The Do-Right
• July: Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders
• August: Elizabeth Speller, The Return of Captain John Emmett
• September: Ann Cleeves, The Long Call
• December: Krista Davis, Not a Creature Was Purring

2021 Books

• January: Winter Study, by Nevada Barr
• February: Miracle Creek, by Angie Kim
• March: Peter Lovesey, Bloodhounds
• April: Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice
• May: Val McDermid, Broken Ground
• June: Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone
• July: Carlos Zafron, Shadow of the Wind
• August: Jane Harper, Force of Nature
• September: Joe Ide, IQ
• October: Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club,
• November: Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra
• December: M.L. Longworth, A Noel Killing

2020 Books

• January: The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey
• February: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, by Helene Tursten
• March: The Jealous Kind, by James Lee Burke
• April: Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino
• May: A Man of Some Repute, by Elizabeth Edmondson
• June: The Last Guest House, by Megan Miranda
• July: The Monogram Murders, by Sophie Hannah
• August: The Dry, by Jane Harper
• September: Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke
• October: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anappara
• November: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne Du Maurier
• December: A Puzzle in a Pear Tree, by Parnell Hall

2019 Books

• January: Dear Daughter, by Elizabeth Little
• February: The Late Monsieur Gallet, by Georges Simenon
• March: The Lanvin Murders, by Angela Sanders
• April: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, by Harry Kemelman
• May: “Y” Is for Yesterday, by Sue Grafton
• June: The Chalk Man, by C.J. Tudor
• July: Three Graves Full, by Jamie Mason
• August: The Late Monsieur Gallet, by Georges Simenon
• September: The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place, by Alan Bradley
• October: Snap, by Belinda Bauer
• November: The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
• December: Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop, edited by Otto Penzler

2018 Books

• January: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler — Classic private eye
• February: Spillover, by David Quammen — Medical thriller
• March: The Long and Faraway Gone, by Lou Berney — Retrospective crime thriller
• April: Double Whammy, by Carl Hiassen — Amateur detectives on the ocean, humorous
• May: The Trespasser, by Tana French — Irish police procedural
• June: The Detective’s Daughter, by Leslie Thomson — Amateur detectives in London
• July: A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny — Police procedural in Canada
• August: Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
• September: Killed at the Whim of a Hat, by Colin Cotterill
• October: The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware
• November: Defectors, by Joseph Kanon
• December: Jerusalem Inn , by Martha Grimes

2017 Books

• January: The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
• February: Dark Reservations, by John Fortunato
• March: Arsenic and Old Books, by Miranda James
• April: Past Crimes, by Glen Erik Hamilton
• May: The Tiger’s Wife, by Tina Obreht
• June: A Cup of Hemlock, by Clyde Curley
• August: Not a Sound, by Heather Gudenkauf — Thriller
• September: The Waters of Eternal Youth, by Donna Leon — Police procedural in Italy
• October: The Merry Misogynist, by Colin Cotterill — Offbeat amateur detective in Laos
• November: The Forgotten Girls, by Sarah Blaedel — Psychological thriller

2016 Books

• January: Blind Justice, Bruce Alexander
• February: Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith
• March: Cold Storage, Alaska, John Straley
• April: The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer
• May: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
• June: The Chatham School Affair, Thomas H. Cook
• July: Open Season, by C.J. Box
• August: The Strangler Vine, by Miranda Carter
• September: The Promise, by Robert Crais
• October: The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny
• November: The Alienist , by Caleb Carr
• December: Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday, by Nancy Atherton

2015 Books

• January: County Line, Bill Cameron
• February: Claire de Witt and the City of the Dead, Sarah Gran
• March: Misery Bay, Steve Hamilton
• April: The Paris Deadline, Max Byrd
• May: Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
• June: After I’m Gone, Laura Lippman
• July: Midnight in Peking, by Paul French
• August: Into the Woods, by Tana French
• September: Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Sarah Caudwell
• October: The Undertaker’s Widow, Phillip Margolin
• November: Dissolution, C.J. Sansom
• December: The Nightingale Before Christmas, Donna Allen

2014 Books

• January: Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane
• February: Gallows View, by Peter Robinson
• March: L.A. Requiem, by Robert Crais
• April: At Risk, by Stella Rimington
• May: Raven Black, by Ann Cleeves
• June: Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson
• August: Booked to Die, by John Dunning
• September: The Ice House, by Minette Walters
• October: The Bat, by Jo Nesbo
• November: The Confession, by Charles Todd
• December: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, Agatha Christie

2013 Books

• January: Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
• February: The Killing Floor by Lee Child
• March: A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
• April: Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
• August: Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg
• September: Proof by Dick Francis
• October: Black Dog by Stephen Booth
• November: Coffin Man by James Doss
• December: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen

2012 Books

• January: Crashers by Dana Haynes
• February: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penney
• May: Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn
• June: From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell
• July: The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake
• August: Balshazzar’s Daughterby Barbara Nadel
• September: Iron Lake by William Ken Krueger
• October: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre
• November: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

2011 Books

• February: A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
• March: The Paramour’s Daughter by Wendy Hornsby
• April: The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
• May: U is For Undertow by Sue Grafton
• June: Did Not Survive by Ann Littlewood
• July: LA Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
• August: The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
• September: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• October: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
• November: Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance
• December: A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie

2010 Books

• January: Cat on the Edge by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
• February: Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout
• March: Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain
• April: Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
• May: The Cat, the Quilt & the Corpse by Leann Sweeney
• June: Kill Me by Stephen White
• July: The Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli
• August: Blue Smoke & Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
• September: The Ghost (APA: The Ghost Writer) by Robert Harris
• October: The Cabinet of Curiosities– by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• November: Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
• December: Paying The Price by Madge Walls

2009 Books

• January: What’s So Funny by Donald Westlake
• February: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
• March: 33 Teeth by Colin Cotterill
• April: The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
• May: The Art of Detection by Laurie King
• June: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
• July: Voices, by Arnaldur Indridason
• August: The Ghost in the Machine, by Caroline Graham
• September: Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin
• October: Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
• November: The First Horseman by John Case
• December: Silent Nights by Anne Perry

2008 Books

• January: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spenser-Fleming
• February: Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
• March: Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb
• April: Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte
• May: Rules of Prey by John Sandford
• June: Bone Hunter by Sarah Andrews
• July: Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm
• August: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
• September: The Black Path by Asa Larsson
• October: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• November: Grave Secret by Kathy Reichs
• December: Kissing Christmas Goodbye by MC Beaton

2007 Books

• August: Vengeance by Stuart Kaminsky
• September: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• October: Dead Irish by John Lescroart
• November: Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
• December: Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

2005 Books

• Feb: Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
• March: Decked by Carol Higgins Clark
• April: Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton
• May: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
• June: Motion to Suppress by Perri O’Shaunessey
• July: Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter