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MYSTERY LOVERS’ BOOK CLUB

Start the new year by joining in discussions about three mysteries with librarian Trish Spadaro.  The discussions are always at 1:30 on a Sunday. These popular titles at Radnor Library are also very different from one another, and each title begins the author’s series.

Sunday, January 22 1:30pm

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

An upbeat, plot-driven mystery featuring precocious Flavia de Luce. Flavia is hilarious, brave, and true…and also 11 years old. Here is a murder mystery that is clever and satisfying in the most traditional way and should strike a bright note for “after-holiday” reading.

Sunday, February 26  1:30pm

A Great Deliverance

Often compared to P.D. James, Elizabeth George blends elegant language, evocative settings, and aristocratic police detective Thomas Lynley in this update of the classic British mystery genre. This is her debut novel and the winner of the Agatha and Anthony Awards for best first novel, as well as France’s Grand Prix de Literature Policiere. The Washington Post Book World calls it, “Pure entertainment from its insidious beginning to its gripping end.”

 Sunday, March 18    1:30pm

Faceless Killers

One of the first Swedish mystery writers, Mankell mixes compelling procedural details with strong social consciousness. In this work, a seemingly unprovoked brutal murder of an elderly farm couple seems linked to foreigners and part of a wave of racist hate in the region. His detective, Kurt Wallender, personifies the charming Scandinavia melancholy of lore and tradition. The London Times refers to this novel as, “Intelligent, moving, and topical…a thriller of the very best kind.”

JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

POPULAR FICTION BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES

TUESDAYS AT 7PM

WITH ANN ETRIS, LIBRARIAN

APRIL 10, 2012

MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND BY HELEN SIMONSON

Major Pettigrew’s leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?

MAY 8, 2012

CALEB’S CROSSING BY GERALDINE BROOKS

Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain’s son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite.

JUNE 12, 2012

SARAH’ S KEY BY TATIANA DE ROSNAY

On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d’Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War 11 and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.