The Whodunit Book Club meets the third Wednesday of each month at 5pm to discuss a near-cozy mystery; e.g., nothing too dark or violent. Contact beth@lopezlibrary.org for more information. We will meet both in-person at the library and via Zoom.
On October 19th, we will discuss The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
Written in 1868, this is considered one of the first examples of the modern detective novel.
“A celebrated Indian diamond is first stolen from India then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Collins gives to each of his narrators–a household servant, for instance, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical man–vibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves”–Back cover
We have two print copies as well as the Overdrive/Libby and Hoopla ebooks and audiobooks (multiple versions). Ingrid recommends the Hoopla full-cast audiobook (using the Advanced Search, type Moonstone in the Title field and Naxos in the Publisher field. Select the one with the picture of a carved face with a gem in the forehead.)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 844 3574 5316
Passcode: 233465
November 16th – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (A Flavia de Luce Mystery) by Alan Bradley
“It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.”
Here is a list of what we’ve read to date: Whodunit Reading List