Love a good mystery?
Join fellow mystery lovers and discuss a mystery novel every first Monday of the month.
Currently, we are meeting from 6:30pm to 7:15pm in-person in the Conference Room inside the library. Masks are encouraged but not required if vaccinated.
Copies of the current book will be available to be checked out at the Holds Station under the “Mystery Book Club” in the main circulation room of the library. Registration is appreciated.
Mystery Book Club 2024 Selections
Click on the links below to find out more about each title. Some are the first titles in very popular series! More titles can be found at the bottom of the page through our “Previously Read Titles” link.
*Please note that, due to various holidays, we will be meeting the second Monday in January, July, and September.
- Monday, January 8th (2nd Monday)
- Plaid and Plagiarism (Highland Bookshop Mystery, #1) by Molly MacRae
- Monday, February 5th
- Find You in the Dark by Nathan Ripley
- Monday, April 1st
- The French Girl by Lexie Elliott
- Monday, May 6th
- The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer
- Monday, June 3rd
- What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1) by C.S. Harris
- Monday, July 1st
- Designs to Die For (Annie’s Mysteries Unraveled, #1) by Jan Fields
- Monday, August 5th
- A Plague of Secrets (Dismas Hardy, #13) by John T. Lescroart
- Monday, September 9th (2nd Monday)
- The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo
- Monday, October 7th
- The Man in the Crooked Hat by Harry Dolan
- Monday, November 4th
- Death on Tap (Sloan Krause, #1) by Ellie Alexander
Previously Read Titles
The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green
Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1) by Amy Stewart
Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1) by S.J. Parris
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery, #1) by Mia P. Manansala
Who is Vera Kelly (Vera Kelly, #1) by Rosalie Knecht
Cheddar Off Dead (Cheese Shop Mystery, #1) by Korina Moss
Deception by Gaslight (A Gilded Gotham Mystery, #1) by Kate Belli
Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #1) by Colleen Cambridge
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
Murder at the 42nd Street Library (42nd Street Library, #1) by Con Lehane
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Open Season (Joe Gunther, #1) by Archer Mayor
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1) by Ellis Peters
The Revelators (Quinn Colson, #10) by Ace Atkins
Strange Shores (Inspector Erlendur, #11) by Arnaldur Indriðason (translated by Victoria Cribb)
Flipped for Murder (Country Store Mysteries, #1) by Maddie Day
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) by John Connolly
Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich
China Trade (Lynda Chin & Bill Smith, #1) by S.J. Rozan
Little Black Lies by Sharon J. Bolton
The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1) by Robert Bryndza
The Scold’s Bridle by Minette Walters
The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) by Jeffery Deavers
Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1) by Ann Cleeves
- Click HERE to learn more about Shetland (TV series) from author Ann Cleeves’s website.
- Click HERE to watch Season 1, Episode 1 on YouTube for free (with ads) to get introduced to the show. Please note Season 2, Episodes 1&2 are based on Raven Black, and you can also watch them for free by clicking HERE.
The Pardon (Jack Swyteck, #1) by James Grippando
- Click HERE to catch up with Grippando through his Facebook page. Some posts even address things he’s written about vs. what is happening in 2020.
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1) by Jussi Alder-Olsen
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) by Dennis Lehane
Buried in a Bog (County Cork, #1) by Shelia Connolly
The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Baker Street Letters (Baker Street Letters, #1) by Michael Robertson
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) by Louise Penny
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1) by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Ice House by Minette Walters
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) by Agatha Christie
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) by Kate Atkinson
Knit One, Kill Two (A Knitting Mystery, #1) by Maggie Sefton
Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7) by P.D. James
Murder at Ford’s Theatre (Capital Crimes, #19) by Margaret Truman
The Highly Effective Detective (The Highly Effective Detective, #1) by Rick Yancey
Eye of the Red Tsar (Inspector Pekkala, #1) by Sam Eastland
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1) by Henning Mankell
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10) by Agatha Christie
Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) by Rhys Bowen
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) by Agatha Christie
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1) by Diane Mott Davidson
A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1) by Charles Finch
Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #42) by Agatha Christie
The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy, #1) by Jill Paton Walsh
The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1) by Martha Grimes
Questions? Please contact Nora Blake at nblake@ipswichlibrary.org.
