Mystery Book Discussion Group

Please join us on Sunday, March 24, 2024 @ 5:00 PM Eastern to discuss Silent dolls DB104653 by Rita B Herron. NLS Annotation Silent dolls DB104653 Herron, Rita B Reading time: 8 hours, 42 minutes. Phoebe Zimmermann Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Detective Ellie Reeves is called in to the case of a missing seven-year-old girl, Penny Matthews. After discovery of the decades-old remai...

NLS Annotation The river we remember DB116354 Krueger, William Kent. Reading time: 13 hours, 38 minutes. Read by CJ Wilson. Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Bestsellers War Stories “On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota, gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is foun...

Please join us on Sunday, January 28, 2024 @ 5:00 PM Eastern to discuss Secluded cabin sleeps six DB113174 by Lisa Unger with guest facilitator Shelly Kane. NLS Annotation Secluded cabin sleeps six DB113174 Unger, Lisa Reading time: 12 hours, 23 minutes. Vivienne Leheny Suspense Fiction Psychological Fiction “What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isola...

NLS Description: Six cats a slayin’: a Cat in the stacks mystery DB94075 James, Miranda Reading time: 8 hours, 42 minutes. Erin Bennett A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Mystery and Detective Stories With cat Diesel’s help, Charlie welcomes five tiny felines left on his doorstop. Meanwhile, his nosy neighbor Gerr...

Swamp sweets DB105832 by Jana DeLeon. NLS Annotation Swamp sweets DB105832 DeLeon, Jana Reading time: 7 hours, 46 minutes. Kristin Allison Humor Mystery and Detective Stories The town of Sinful is getting ready for Thanksgiving. But the enjoyment of fall ends when, instead of bagging a turkey on their hunting trip, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie instead bag the body of Miles Broussard. Ally Lemarq...

Home before dark DB99512 Sager, Riley Reading time: 11 hours, 6 minutes. Jon Lindstrom Suspense Fiction Supernatural and Horror Fiction Psychological Fiction Maggie Holt returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound and dangerous secrets hidden within its walls? Unrat...

NLS annotation: Mr. Mercedes: a novel DB79570 King, Stephen Reading time: 17 hours, 46 minutes. Erik Sandvold A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Suspense Fiction Bestsellers Job-fair applicants are mowed down by a man in a stolen Mercedes–and eight die. The killer later sends a letter to ex-cop Bill Hodges, who–wi...

NLS DESCRIPTION : Look both ways: a novel DB110470 Barclay, Linwood Reading time: 9 hours, 41 minutes. Jack Fox Suspense Fiction Science Fiction Family “These headlights are watching you… The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents’ cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month th...

We will be discussing Maisie Dobbs: a novel DB67808 by Jacqueline Winspear when the Mystery Book Discussion Group next meets on 7/23/23 at 5pm Eastern. This is the first book in a series of which BARD currently has 16 titles in audio format. BARD also has these 16 titles in Braille format. Liz Lindsey is the group facilitator and will be leading the discussion. NLS annotation: Maisie Dobbs: a nove...

Greetings! We will be discussing the first book in the Library Mysteries Series, Books Can be Deceiving, DB80256, by Jenn McKinlay. Please note that this is a multi-book download. NLS INFO: Books one through five, written between 2011 and 2014, in the series featuring library director and amateur sleuth Lindsey Norris of Briar Creek, Connecticut. In Books Can Be Deceiving, Beth Stanley, Lindsey&#8...

Please join us on Sunday 4-23-23 @ 5:00 PM, EDT to discuss the first book in this three book collection , Vanishing Girls by Lisa Ragan BARD Description Detective Josie Quinn.. Books 1-3 DB92685 Regan, Lisa, (Lisa L.); Regan, Lisa Reading time: 27 hours, 9 minutes. Emily Ellet A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Suspense Ficti...

Please join us on Sunday, 3 – 26 – 23, at 5 PM Eastern daylight time, to discuss The Hunting Party by Lisa Foley, DB94270. NLS DISCRIPTION: The hunting party DB 94270 Lucy, (Novelist) Quirk, Moira. Reading time 10 hours, minutes. Read by Gary Furlong. Subjects: Suspense Fiction Description: A group of thirtysomething Oxford friends gather for their annual New Year vacation. They arrive...

Please join us on Sunday. 2/26/23 @ 5:00 PM EST. NLS Description The Cartographers DB 107824 Shepherd, Peng. Reading time 14 hours, 17 minutes. Read by Emily Woo Zeller. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Family; Fantasy Fiction Description: When her estranged father dies, Nell investigates a strange map she f...

NLS Description The Last to Vanish DB109691 Miranda, Megan. Reading time 9 hours, 26 minutes. Read by Alex Allwine. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories Description: “Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nest...

NLS Discription The house across the lake: a novel DB108524 Sager, Riley Reading time: 11 hours, 7 minutes. Bernadette Dunne Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories “Be careful what you watch for . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of...

Please join us on Sunday, October 23rd, At 5 PM EDT. We will be discussing the book The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde, DB62658. This is the 1st book in The Nursery Crimes series. NLS Description: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt of the Reading Police Department Nursery Crime Division investigates the untimely demise of Humpty Dumpty–ex-con, womanizer, alcoholic, and philanthropist–fou...

Read by Suzy Jackson Reading time: 9 hrs. 32 min. NLS Discription Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories; Supernatural and Horror Fiction Description: “Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has t...

Please join us Sunday August 28, 2022 to discuss The bone house DB106032 by Brian Freeman. Your facilitator for this meeting is Liz Lindsey, Elizabethl@comcast.net. NLS Annotation: The bone house DB106032 Freeman, Brian; Barrett, Joe Reading time: 12 hours, 0 minutes. Joe Barrett Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Hilary Bradley is trying to prove her husband Mark innocent of murdering...

Please join us to discuss The Christie Affair, DB106614NLS DescriptionThe Christie Affair DB 106614 Gramont, Nina de. Reading time 10 hours, 26 minutes. Read by Lucy Scott. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Historical Fiction Description: London, 1925. After Archie Christie tells his famous wife, author Agatha Christie, that h...

NLS annotation, as well as he ZOOM information. The cooking school murders DB21819 Rich, Virginia Reading time: 7 hours, 53 minutes. Patricia Beaudry National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Mystery and Detective Stories Takes place in the small farming town of Harrington, Iowa. After the first session of a gourmet cooking class, one of the thirteen c...

Please join us on Sunday, May 22nd @ 5:00 EDT, to discuss the book, 1222, by Anne Holt DB100491 . NLS Description: 1222 DB100491 Holt, Anne Reading time: 10 hours, 40 minutes. Kate Reading Mystery and Detective Stories A train traveling to northern Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers think they are safe after finding shelter from the storm at an o...

NLS Description: Dixie Hemingway is a pet sitter for some of Florida’s most pampered pets. But when she happens upon a man drowned in a cat’s water bowl, Dixie’s sleuthing powers from her time as a deputy sheriff return full-force. And as more bodies keep turning up, she’d better find the killer. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2005.

NLS Description Livia’s husband Adam is throwing her a blowout fortieth birthday party. Everyone will be there, except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. Livia recently uncovered a shattering secret about Marnie. She needs to tell Adam, but she’s waiting until the party is over so they can have this last happy time together. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

Description: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. And the bodies begin to pile up. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

The Mystery Book Discussion Group to discuss Kneading to Die (book 1 of the Pawsatively Organic Mysteries) DB103390, by Liz Mugavero. The NLS annotation follows: A pawsitively organic mystery. Books 1-3 DB103390 Mugavero, Liz Reading time: 25 hours, 56 minutes. Eva Wilhelm Mystery and Detective Stories Animals and Wildlife Three mysteries, written between 2013 and 2015, featuring Kristan “St...