It's a Mystery

We meet at 10:00 am on the second Wednesday of the month. Everyone is welcome to join the lively discussion!
The City and the City by China Mieville - June 13, 2012

The cities in question are next to—or even on top of—each other. But Inspector Tyador Borlu must cross their borders repeatedly in his hunt for the murderer of a missing woman. See what a speculative fiction writer does with the mystery genre in this critically acclaimed and best-selling novel.
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton - July 11, 2012

The titular lock artist is Mike Smith, who can open any lock but who hasn’t spoken since he was eight years old. He’s been in prison for nearly a decade. As he tells his story in this Edgar-award winning novel, we uncover more of the mysteries of his past.
The Killer is Dying by James Sallis - August 8, 2012

Three men in Phoenix—a detective whose wife is dying, a contract killer who is dying himself, and a thirteen-year-old boy—never meet but lead curiously intertwined lives as they go about surviving and as the reader uncovers their different and complicated mysteries.

Previous It's a Mystery Choices

Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Paper Towns by John Green Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang
What's So Funny by Donald E. Westlake American Eve by Paula Uruburu
Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker Killer Swell by Jeff Shelby
Heart of the Hunter by Deon Meyer The Third Man by Graham Greene
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell The Closers by Michael Connelly
Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman Echo Burning by Lee Child
Black Dahlia by James Ellroy Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Midnight Assassin by Patricia L. Bryan Cry Dance by Kirk Mitchell
Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel Still Life by A.S. Byatt
Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
The Art of Detection by Laurie R King In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Circle by Peter Lovesey Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain
Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly Undercurrents by Francis Fyfield
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
The Escher Twist by Jane Langton Whiteout by Ken Follett
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
Dragon Bones by Lisa See Red Box by Rex Stout
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs A Superior Death by Nevada Barr
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall Stieg Larsson Smorgasbord
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie The Cold Dish
The Scent of Rain and Lightning On, Off
Through the Cracks Poacher's Son
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter On, Off
Gone Baby Gone Witch Way to Murder
Portobello: a novel The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy
Rogue Island Sister
Bury Your Dead Red on Red