Discussions will be led by Linda Trouten through June. Linda would like to encourage members to join the Mystery Book Club. The books we read are fun and discussions are lively!
All descriptions of the books are from their dust jackets or publishers.
Contact Linda for more information.
August 26, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – location TBD
Spirit Crossing
by William Kent Krueger
“The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman–but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.”
September 23, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
The Quiet Librarian
By Allen Eskens
“Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia–until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes.”
October 18, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
Broken Fields
By Marcie R. Rendon
“1970s Minnesota. It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing summer field work for Bud Borgerud, a local farmer–until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property’s rented farmhouse. The only possible witness to the murder is the young daughter of a Native field laborer who was renting the house. The girl, Shawnee, is too terrified to speak about what she’s witnessed, and her parents seem to have vanished.”
Date TBD @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
The Grey Wolf
by Louise Penny
“Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.”
Date TBD @ 9:30 a.m. in the Main Hall
Lost Luggage
by Wendell Thomas
“Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents’ Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees-and everywhere else-then sneaks out of her Atlantic City hotel room at three a.m. Back in Brooklyn, when she reads about smugglers stopped at JFK with skinks in their socks or monkeys down their pants, she never imagines she will join their ranks. But days after the pet store owner next door to Redondo Travel is poisoned, Cyd wins a free safari.”
2022-2025 Book List
September 2022: Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
October 2022: A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
November 2022: Best in Snow by David Rosenfelt
January 2023: No Memes of Escape by Olivia Blacke
February 2023: The Maid by Nita Prose
March 2023: Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild
April 2023: Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O’Connor
May 2023: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
June 2023: Death of a Starling by Linda Norlander
July 2023: The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
August 2023: The Bangalore Detective Club by Harini Narendra
September 2023: The Local by Joey Hartstone
October 2023: Exiles by Jane Harper
November 2023: A Good Family by Matt Goldman
January 2024: The Zero Night by Brian Freeman
February 2024: Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
March 2024: Residue by Michael McGarrity
April 2024: Nowhere Street by Ron Handberg
May 2024: Murder Under a Red Moon A Bangalore Detectives Mystery by Harini Nagendra
June 2024: The White Lady: A Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
July 2024: Glory Be A Glory Broussard Mystery by Danielle Arceneaux
September 2024: The Sacred Bridge: A Novel by Anne Hillerman
October 2024: All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
November 2024: Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander
January 2025: Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens
February 2025: A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
March 2025: Vanishing Edge by Claire Kells
April 2025: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
May 2025: The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman
June 2025: Murder is in the Air: A Kate Shackleton Mystery by Frances Brody
July 2025: Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Updated: 8/12/25