Our group aims to read one book a month. One member in turn chooses a book and author, often from a series of books with the same detective. We aim to choose not only English books but foreign ones or books set in foreign settings and a mixture of older and more recent authors. After a short presentation about the chosen book, we discuss its plotline, writing style, detective/lead characters and what appeals or not about the book. If the book is dramatised on stage or screen, we also talk about how this affects our appreciation of the characters and enjoyment of the story. We may discuss related crime fiction subjects or biographies of authors as well later in the meeting. Once a year, we select a volume of short stories which brings a different approach to compress the crime process into a limited length. For 2025, it will be 'Invisible Blood' edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Our forward programme is:',
2025
May - 1 'The Wyndham Case' by Jill Paton Walsh
April 3 - 'The Falls' by ian Rankin
May 1 - 'The wyndham Case' by Jill Paton Walsh
June 5 - 'Deadly Animals' by Marie Tierney
July 3 - 'Murder Before Evensong' by Richard Coles
August 7 - 'Daisy Darker' by Alice Feeney
September 4 - 'A Certain Justice' by P D James
October 2 - 'The Suspicious of Mr Whicher' by Kate Summerscale
November 6- 'Death Comes to Marlowe' by Robert Thorogood
December 4 - 'Close to Death' by Anthony Horowitz
January 8 - no meeting on 1 January but we shall have a coffee morning on 8th January to discuss our favourite books for 2025.
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