Book Discussion Groups

It's a Crime!

...a book discussion group for readers of murder, mayhem and mystery!

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   Our pick for May is "The Poisoner's Handbook" by Deborah Blum

Next meeting is Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 2:30 pm at the library.

If you would like to be added to 'It's a Crime!'  e-mail list, please call the library at 608-795-2104 or email mazlib [at] mazolibrary.org . We will alert you to any changes in the meeting schedule or other updates.

It's a Crime! Reading List:

• The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly
• A Grave Surprise – Michael Koryta
• (The works of) Ruth Rendell
• Haunting Rachel – Kay Hooper
• Still Life with Crows – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• Fat Ollie’s Book – Ed McBain
• Grave Surprise – Charlaine Harris
• The Pardon – James Grippando
• Skinwalkers – Tony Hillerman
• The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett (Jan 2009)
• Winter Study – Nevada Barr (Feb. 2009)
• Winter Prey – John Sandford (March 2009)
• Dead Hot Shot – Victoria Houston (April 2009)
• Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard (May 2009)
• Potshot – Robert B. Parker (June 2009)
• Black Cherry Blues – James Lee Burke (July 2009)
• Curse of the Spellmans – Lisa Lutz (Aug. 2009)
• The Price of Blood – Declan Hughes (Sept. 2009)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving (Oct. 2009)
• Blue Heaven – C.J. Box (Nov./Dec. 2009)
• Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen (Jan. 2010)
• The Five Orange Pips – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Letter of Mary – Laurie King (Feb. 2010)
• Forty Words for Sorrow – Giles Blunt (October 2011)
• A Window in Copacabana – Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (November 2011)
• Dog On It – Spencer Quinn (January 2012)
• Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny (February 2012)
• Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin (March 2012)
• A Morbid Taste for Bones – Ellis Peters (April 2012)
• Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs (May 2012)
• Indemnity Only - Sara Paretsky (June 2012)
• Lost - Michael Robotham (July 2012)
• In the Bleak Midwinter - Julia Spencer-Fleming (August 2012)
• Dead of Night - Randy Wayne White (September 2012)
• Christine Falls - Benjamin Black (October 2012)
• The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler (November 2012)
• The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (December 2012)
• (skipped Jan. 2013)
• The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (February 2013)
• A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie (March 2013)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (April 2013)
• A Blunt Instrument - Georgette Heyer (May 2013)
• The Black House - Peter May (June 2013)
• Freeze Frame - Peter May (July 2013)
• Carved in Bone - Jefferson Bass (August 2013)
• The Terra Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri (September 2013)
• The Body Farm - Patiricia Cornwell (October 2013)
• Faithful Place - Tana French (November 2013)
• Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop (December 2013)
• Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard (January 2014)
• Betrayal of Trust - J.A. Jance (February 2014)
• Wicked City - Ace Atkins (March 2014)
• Sense of Evil - Kay Hooper (April 2014)
• The Edge - Dick Francis (May 2014)
• And Justice There is None - Deborah Crombie (June 2014)
• Storm Front - Richard Castle (July 2014)
• Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow (August 2014)
• The Hit - David Baldacci (Sept. 2014)
• The Cold Moon - Jeffery Deaver (Oct. 2014)
• Killing Grounds - Dana Stabenow (Nov. 2014)
• Open Season - C.J. Box (Dec. 2014)
• Thunder Bay - William Kent Krueger (Jan. 2015)
• Dying on the Vine - Aaron J. Elkins (Feb. 2015)
• The Watchman - Robert Crais (March 2015)
• Along Came a Spider - James Patterson (April 2015)
• The Territory - Tricia Fields (May 2015)
• Stone Butterfly - James D. Doss (June 2015)
• Why Kings Confess - C.S. Harris (July 2015)
• The English Girl - Daniel SIlva (August 2015)
• Bootlegger's Daughter - Margaret Maron (Sept. 2015)
• Serpent's Tooth - Craig Johnson (Oct. 2015)
• Degrees of Separation - Sue Henry (Nov. 2015)
• Track of the Cat - Nevada Barr (Dec. 2015)
• Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn (Jan. 2016)
• The Storm Murders - John Farrow (Feb. 2016)
• The Surgeon - Tess Gerritson (March 2016)
• Murder in the White House - Margaret Truman (April 2016)
• A Place of Safeety - Caroline Graham (May 2016)
• The Lonely Silver Rain - John MacDonald (June 2016)
• True Witness - Jo Bannister (July 2016)
• By Its Cover - Donna Leon (Aug. 2016)
• 1222 - Anne Holt (Sept. 2016)
• The Rage - Gene Kerrigan (Oct. 2016)
• Bone by Bone - Carol O'Connell (Nov. 2016)
• The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie (Dec. 2016)
• Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley (Jan. 2017)
• Stagestruck - Peter Lovesey (Feb. 2017)
• A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh (Mar. 2017)
• Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers (Apr. 2017)
• Forty Words for Sorrow - Giles Blunt (May 2017)
• Dead Madonna - Victoria Houston (June 2017)
•  Random works by Earle Stanley Gardner and A.A. Fair (July 2017)
• The Carrier - Sophie Hannah (August 2017)
• LA Outlaws - T. Jefferson Parker (Sept. 2017)
• Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death - James Runcie (Oct. 2017)
• Murder of a Beauty Shop queen - Bill Crider (Nov. 2017)
• Skeleton Man - Tony Tillerman (Dec. 2017)
• Spider Woman's Daughter - Anne Hillerman (Jan. 2018)
• True Witness - Jo Bannister (Feb. 2018)
• Bad Things Happen - Harry Dolan (Mar. 2018)
• Spider Woman's Daughter - Anne Hillerman (Apr. 2018)
• IQ - Joe Ide (May 2018)
• Little Elvises - Timothy Hallinan (June 2018)
• The Red Door - Charles Todd (July 2018)
• Bruno, Chief of Police - Martin Walker (August 2018)
• Slip of the Knife - Denise Mina (September 2018)
• Murder in the rue Paradis - Cara Black (October 2018)
• A Cold Day in Paradise - Steve Hamilton (November 2018)
• The Dry - Jane Harper (December 2018)
• Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson (January/February 2019)
• The Skeleton Road - Val McDermid (March 2019)
• The Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block (April 2019)
• Patriot Threat - Steve Berry (May 2019)
• A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny (June 2019)
• Invisible City - Julia Dahl (july 2019)
• Havana Bay - Martin Cruz Smith (Aug. 2019)
• Breakup - Dana Stabenow (Sept. 2019)
• November Road - Lou Berney (Oct. 2019)
• Atlantis Found - Clive Cussler (November 2019)
• The Last Equation of Isaac Severy - Nova Jacobs (December 2019)
• A Duty to the Dead - Charles Todd (January 2020)
• The Second Life of Nick Mason - Steve Hamilton (February 2020)
• Liar, Liar - Lisa Jackson (March 2020)
• The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz (this book was not discussed due to schedule interruption from pandemic).
• The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz (June 2022)
• The Bat - Jo Nesbo (July 2022)
• Innocent in Death - J. D. Robb (Aug. 2022)
• Blood Money - Thomas Perry (Sep. 2022)
• Billy Boyle: a World War II mystery - James R. Benn (Oct. 2022)
• The Blue Last - Martha Grimes (Nov. 2022)
• Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs (Dec. 2022)
• Death on the Prairie - Kathleen Ernst (Jan. 2023)
• Figure Eight; A Northern Lakes Mystery - Jeff Nania (Feb. 2023)
• The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman (Mar. 2023)
• Birder Murder Mystery series - Steve Burrows (Apr. 2023)
• The Codebreaker's Secret - Sara Ackerman (May 2023)
• The Tin Roof Blowdown by author James Lee Burke (June 2023)
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (July 2023)
• Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd (August 2023)
• Still Life by Louise Penny (September 2023)
• The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron (October 2023)
• Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (November 2023)
• The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagenda (December 2023)
• Silent Bite by David Rosenfelt (January 2024)
• Anywhere You Run by Wanda M Morris (February 2024)
• Deep Dark Secrets by Joy Ann Ribar (March 2024)
• Homecoming, a Novel by Kate Morton (April 2024)
• The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum (May 2024)