All aboard for the final leg of our tour around the world, with Sweden, Nigeria, and Spain! Join us the third Tuesday of each month where we will discuss a title set in a different country and/or written by a foreign author.
When you register, we will reserve a copy of the book for you - no need to place a hold, unless you would like to enjoy the book in a different format. This is the last chance to get your Reader's Passport stamped before the summer!
Passport to Mysteryby CUCLUBS
The Passport to Mystery book club explores authors and their mysteries from other countries. Last stops for 2024: Sweden, Nigeria, and Spain!
The final stop on our tour around the world: Spain. A disgraced police officer in Bilbao must convince gifted forensic crime specialist Antonia Scott to emerge from her trauma-induced isolation to solve a brutal series of murders. The first in Gómez-Jurado's Antonia Scott trilogy.
We land in Nigeria in May! Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number.
April's journey: Sweden, where Faye Adelheim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall to pieces. Who is Faye, really?
March is for Maali Almeida, a closeted Sri Lankan photojournalist who finds himself brutally murdered. His afterlife guide informs him that he only seven moons in which to lead the loves of his life to photos that will change Sri Lanka forever.
February brings us to Mexico, where debutante Noemi Taboada has received a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom.
In January we land in Japan, where a stabbing victim is found under the Nihonbashi bridge, where stands a statue of a "kirin", a Japanese mythic beast. When another man is found with the victim's wallet, the search begins to figure out the link between the two, and why the victim made such an effort to drag himself to Nihonbashi bridge to die.
Spend December in Ojibwe territory, with Angeline Boulley's debut novel. A young half-Ojibwe woman witnesses her friend's murder and becomes involved in the FBI's investigation into a new drug.
November's stop: Cyprus, home of Alex Michaelides. In a psychiatric hospital, a famous artist has gone mute after inexplicably killing her husband.
Heading north to Iceland in October, a retired detective is called to investigate new evidence on a cold case. "The Darkness Knows" is the first in Arnaldur's Detective Konrad series.
First on the itinerary for September, we have a visit to the gated community known as The Circle, located in the UK. B.A. Paris is a Franco-British writer, and "The Therapist" is her sixth novel.