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by Mel Pennant
Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. Miss Hortense once used her skills to benefit the Pardner network--a local group of Black investors that she helped found. Until, that is, she was unceremoniously ousted from its ranks, severing her ties to the majority of her friends and community. That was thirty years ago. Now, as a new millennium dawns, an unidentified man has been found dead in the home of one of the Pardner members, a Bible quote written on a note beside his body. Suddenly, Miss Hortense finds her long-buried past rushing back, bringing memories of the worst moment of her life--and secrets behind an unsolved crime that has haunted her for decades. |
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by Anthony Horowitz
Back in England, editor Susan Ryeland is working on a continuation novel called Pünd's Last Case, in which writer Eliot Crace has concealed clues about his grandmother's death by poison, but when another murder follows, Susan becomes the number one suspect. |
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The Trees by Percival Everett When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they find at each crime scene an unexpected second body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. After meeting resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist white townsfolk, the MBI detectives suspect these are killings of retribution. Then they discover eerily similar murders taking place in rapid succession all over the country. The past, it seems, refuses to be buried. The uprising has begun. |
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Next Meeting
Wednesday July 9th In person AND on Zoom! Zoom Link: If you'd like more information about the Mystery Lover's Book Club, please e-mail me! at bhomrighausen@losgatosca.gov |
July 2025 Meeting The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters (#1 in The Last Policeman Trilogy) Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. Presenting a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States, the economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. |
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