Our Mystery book group meets the fourth Tuesday of every other month, February-October 2025, at 6:30pm in the Carnegie Room. Books will be available six weeks in advance of each discussion on the top floor display near the elevator. Email storef [at] stolib.org and ask to be added to the email list if you’d like to receive reminders and links to join us via Zoom if you prefer.
February 25: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Wedding guests gather at a remote island off the coast of Ireland, but instead of celebrating nuptials, but the mood turns dark and someone winds up murdered.
April 22: Slow Horses by Mick Herron
River Cartwright is a “slow horse,” a British intelligence agent who messed up an important case and is now seen fit only to push papers in an office. But when a young man is abducted, River sees his chance to get involved with the case and redeem himself.
June 24: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
When Ellie Black, who disappeared two years earlier, is found alive in the woods of Washington State, Detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose own sister went missing when they were teenagers, realizes something is not right with Ellie and it's up to her to find the answers before another girl is taken.
August 26: The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Everything is not sugar and spice during the filming of the new season of reality cooking show Bake Week. Ingredients are sabotaged, burners are secretly turned up to scorching, then someone is murdered. Now the competitors and hosts must solve the mystery—but everyone’s a suspect.
October 28: Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
When author Tony Hillerman passed away, his daughter Anne decided to continue his long-running Leaphorn and Chee series, bringing more prominence to the formerly minor character of Chee’s wife, Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito.