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Mystery Book Club – Winter Books for December

by | Aug 20, 2024 | Adults, Home Page Feature

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For December we are reading two books with winter themes:

  1. a short book of four short stories by P. D. James
  2. a mystery set in Alaska by Paige Shelton.

Pick up a copy of each at the library and join us on Tuesday, December 10th at 2 p.m.

Book Summary:

cover of The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories - a set of short stories by P. D. James

The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James

This is a set of four short stories by P. D. James..

  • Mistletoe murder: a best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier.
  • A very commonplace murder: A clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder.
  • The Boxdale inheritance: Adam Dalgliesh is implored by his godfather to reinvestigate a notorious murder that threatens to reveal a dark family secret.
  • The twelve clues of Christmas: Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that involves a family with “an aversion to natural death.

 

cover of Thin Ice - a mystery by Paige Shelton which is set in Alaska.

Thin Ice by Paige Shelton

Beth Rivers is on the run – she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic’s obsession. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she’s got to get away. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailormade for her to hideout. Beth’s new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she’s felt since Levi took her. That is, until she’s told about a local death that’s a suspected murder. Could the death of Linda Rafferty have anything to do with her horror at the hands of Levi Brooks? As Beth navigates her way through the wilds of her new home, her memories of her time in the van are coming back, replaying the terror and the fear–and threatening to keep her from healing, from reclaiming her old life again. Can she get back to normal, will she ever truly feel safe, and can she help solve the local mystery, if only so she doesn’t have to think about her own?