Mystery Readers Group: 2024 Favorites + Guest Author Ellen Kirschman
On Wednesday, December 18, from 3:00 to 4:15 pm via Zoom, identify your suspects for best mysteries of 2024 — and chat with mystery author Ellen Kirschman. Register online.
As 2024 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the new mysteries we read this year that kept us guessing, thrilled us with twists, or maybe even left us wanting more.
Which among the mysteries published this year have you read, and which do you recommend to your fellow mystery lovers? Whether you were hooked by a clever plot twist, or left cold by an underwhelming reveal, we want to hear your thoughts!
A few leads:
Close to Death, by Anthony Horowitz: When a man is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, the baffled local police call on ex-DI Daniel Hawthorne to investigate.
The Comfort of Ghosts, by Jacqueline Winspear: In her final adventure, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in post-WWII London.
The Fury, by Alex Michaelides: A reclusive former actress invites friends to celebrate Easter on her private Greek island, but they find themselves trapped when a murder disrupts the festivities.
The Hunter, by Tana French: In this sequel to The Searcher (2020), retired American detective Cal Hooper’s peaceful new life in the rural Irish village of Ardnakelty is upended by the arrival, and subsequent murder, of a con artist with local ties.
The Lantern’s Dance: A Novel of Suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, by Laurie R. King: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, instead find themselves embroiled in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
We’ll also have a visit from author Ellen Kirschman, the local author whose latest book is Call Me Carmela, book five in her Dot Meyerhoff mystery series. Meyerhoff, a police psychologist, is pulled into a murky world when she agrees to help find a teen’s birth parents.
Menlo Park’s Mystery Readers Group meets online on the third Wednesday of each month. Rather than reading the same book, we all share our reading of different books surrounding a particular theme — best of the year, for instance.
