| Meeting Schedule We meet at 7:00 PM on the second Tuesday of each month at Barnes
& Noble, 1301 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, ID 83704, 208-375-4454. Meetings are open to
the public.
Each meeting we host speakers such as mystery authors or
specialists in crime and detection, followed by a special get-together for writers.
Meeting Dates:
January 8
February 12
March 11
April 8
May 13
June - No meeting, Murder In The Grove
July 8
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 11
December 9
Reading Schedule
The reading group meets at 7:00 PM on the fourth Tuesday
of each month at Barnes & Noble, 1301 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, ID 83704, 208-375-4454.
Meetings are open to the public.
At each meeting we talk about a
book that everyone has read. Discussions are interesting, varied,
and lively.
The book list and meeting dates for 2008
are as follows:
January
22 SISTERS ON THE CASE: Celebrating 20 Years of Sisters in
Crime Edited by Sara Paretsky
February 26 FOUL MATTER by Martha
Grimes. 2001 Ridley Award takes on the publishing world.
March 25 MURDERS IN THE
RUE MORGUE by Edgar Allan Poe. Father of the mystery story
introduced the first fictional detective in 1841.
April 22 QUESTIONABLE
ETHICS by Angela Abderhalden. Our ‘own’ Angie’s debut novel!
May 27 WEB OF EVIL by
J.A.Jance. 2008 Murder in the Grove honree. The second in her new
Ali Reynolds series.
June 24 IN THE SHADOW
OF THE GLACIER by Vicki Delany. Canadian author and panelist at
Murder in the Grove. First in her B.C. series.
July 24 STONE CRIBS by
Kris Nelscott. Oregon author, winner of Herodotus & Spotted Owl
Awards for historical Smokey Dalton series (late 1960’s) #3
August 26 NO GOOD DEEDS by
Laura Lippmann. “With every outing [she] reinvents the private
detective novel with thoughtful, well-plotted stories.”
September 23 RAVEN BLACK by Ann
Cleeves. Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of 2006, atmospheric
mystery set in the remote Shetland Islands
October 28 STILL LIFE by
Canadian author Louise Penny. Has won several awards for her debut
novel, set in a small village near Montreal, Quebec.
November 25 DOG DAY by Alicia
Gimenez-Bartlett. Set in Barcelona, written by one of Spain’s
favorite crime writers
December 16* ORIGIN by Diana Abu-Jaber,
on the faculty of Portland State University. “A mystery of cold
beauty and dark isolation, written with crystalline precision.” Set
in Syracuse NY, is it “crib death” or serial killer?
*December date, location to be
determined by the Readers Group at a later time
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