📖 Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
🗓️ Sunday, October 25 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A glamorous dinner party. A beautiful woman with a troubled past. A deadly toast that raises more questions than answers.

One year after the mysterious death of Rosemary Barton at her own birthday dinner, her grieving husband gathers the same guests for another evening at the very same restaurant. Convinced that Rosemary was murdered, he hopes to uncover the truth behind her death. But as old jealousies, secret affairs, and hidden resentments come to light, it becomes clear that everyone at the table has something to conceal, and someone may be willing to kill again.

Join us to discuss love, betrayal, suspicious circumstances, and Agatha Christie's talent for revealing the darkness beneath polite society.

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📖 Book of the Month: The Curse of the Pogo Stick
🗓️ Sunday, August 23 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom
📚 Reading: The Curse of the Pogo Stick

This August we're leaving the United States for Laos with Nurse Dtui. It’s her intervention that saves the lives of the people working in the morgue from a booby-trapped corpse. The bomb had been intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner, but Dr. Siri wasn’t at the morgue that day. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui’s intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri’s fiancée.

Expect a discussion on modern cozy mystery conventions, the balance of humor and suspense, the need to be open to new adventures, and the use of conflict in cozy mysteries. RSVP to receive the Zoom link.

📖 Book of the Month: Mastering the Art of French Murder
🗓️ Sunday, May 24 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom
📚 Reading: Mastering the Art of French Murder

This May, we’re heading to Paris for a cozy mystery filled with food, charm, and intrigue. Mastering the Art of French Murder follows an American abroad who finds herself entangled in a culinary mystery when a murder disrupts an otherwise idyllic life of pastries and Parisian culture.

Expect a discussion on classic cozy mystery structure, food as atmosphere and plot device, the appeal of amateur sleuths abroad, and how setting—especially Paris—functions as a character in the story.

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📖 Author Visit: Landis Wade
🗓️ Sunday, April 26 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom
📚 Reading: Any Landis Wade book (new release encouraged)

This April, we are joined by mystery and thriller author Landis Wade for a live author discussion. Members may read any of Wade’s novels in advance. His newest release, Deadly Gold Rush, publishes in March and will serve as a shared reference point for the conversation.

Expect a discussion on writing modern cozy mysteries, building long-running series, blending humor with crime, and using local history as the backbone of contemporary mysteries.

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📖 Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec
🗓️ Sunday, March 22 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A picturesque coastal village. A seasoned detective out of place. A death that unsettles a community built on silence.
When Parisian police commissioner Georges Dupin is transferred to the remote coast of Brittany, he expects exile and obscurity. Instead, the sudden death of a beloved hotel owner pulls him into a tightly knit seaside town where everyone knows one another and no one is quite forthcoming. As Dupin investigates, local loyalties, unspoken histories, and the gap between appearances and reality begin to surface.

Join us to discuss small-town secrecy, outsider authority, and how place and culture shape the investigation of crime.

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📖 A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton
🗓️ Sunday, Dec 28 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

Bath, England, 1890. A mystery author under suspicion. A murder that refuses to stay fictional.
When Lady Amy Lovell receives an anonymous letter accusing her fiancé of illegal dealings, she abruptly ends their engagement. Days later, he appears uninvited at her home — and is soon discovered dead in her library, stabbed through the chest. With the police quick to assume her guilt, Lady Amy is forced to investigate the crime herself.

Teaming up with Lord William Wethington, a fellow member of the Bath Mystery Book Club, she uncovers a growing list of suspects, each with reason to wish the victim harm. As secrets surface and motives multiply, Lady Amy must solve the case before she is condemned for a crime she did not commit.

Join us to discuss amateur sleuthing, reputation and gendered suspicion, and how crime fiction reflects the social constraints of Victorian England.

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📖 The Examiner by Janice Hallett 🗓️ Sunday, Dec 28 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom Six students. One final project. A murder no one saw coming. When an external examiner arrives to assess a new master’s course at a British art university, he finds himself sorting through student emails, group chats, and coursework that seem to hide a terrible crime. Told through documents and digital fragments, The Examiner is a darkly funny, sharply observed puzzle from the queen of the modern epistolary mystery, Janice Hallett. Join us to decode ambition, rivalry, and the fine line between creativity and chaos.

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📖 Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
🗓️ Sunday, Dec 28 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A packed theatre, a live performance, and a prop gun that isn’t. On opening night of the play The Rat and the Beaver, the cast and audience are stunned when a stage murder turns lethally real. With the victim dead before the final curtain falls, Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn—already in attendance—steps behind the scenes to find a killer hiding among the company.

Backstage feuds, jealous lovers, and professional rivalries mean everyone has something to conceal, and every alibi might be nothing more than another performance. This classic Golden Age mystery serves up theatrical glamour, sharp wit, and a tightly plotted puzzle where every costume, cue, and prop could be the key to the crime. Join us to sift through the clues, unmask the culprit, and revel in the drama behind the drama.

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📖 The Examiner by Janice Hallett
🗓️ Sunday, Nov 23 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

Six students. One final project. A murder no one saw coming.
When an external examiner arrives to assess a new master’s course at a British art university, he finds himself sorting through student emails, group chats, and coursework that seem to hide a terrible crime. Told through documents and digital fragments, The Examiner is a darkly funny, sharply observed puzzle from the queen of the modern epistolary mystery, Janice Hallett. Join us to decode ambition, rivalry, and the fine line between creativity and chaos.

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📖 Miss Zukas and the Library Murders by Jo Dereske
🗓️ Sunday, Oct 26 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A quiet library. A shocking death among the stacks. Reluctant sleuth Helma Zukas must pair her meticulous methods with a free-spirited artist friend to uncover the truth. Join us for a witty, classic whodunit filled with small-town charm, dark secrets, and a very determined librarian.

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📖 Murder in an Italian Village by Michael Falco
🗓️ Sunday, Sep 28 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A sunlit B&B. A body in a guest room. Bria must unmask a killer before her seaside dream disappears. Join us for an Italian mystery full of intrigue, family drama, and deadly secrets under the Amalfi sun.

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📖 A Generation of Vipers by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
🗓️ Sunday, Aug 24 | 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM PT | 📍 Zoom

A killer is hiding in plain sight… and Dr. Nell Ward may be his next target. Join us for a twisty countryside mystery full of snakes, secrets, and serial murder.

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