The Usual Suspects Mystery Reading Group will meet again on Sunday, May 20th at 2 p.m. in the Seminar Room.
The book under discussion will be She Walks These Hills, in which an old murder is explained, an even older murder is revealed, and a murder takes place in the present time.
This 1994 Sharyn McCrumb book won the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity and Nero Wolfe awards.
It is part her highly acclaimed Ballad Novels series.
The characters include the ghost of a teenager kidnapped by Shawnees in 1779, an elderly escaped convict who cannot recall recent events because of a rare mental illness, the convict’s former wife and daughter, a radio talk show host interested in the convict’s past, and a frightened girl with an abusive husband and a demanding baby.
Sharyn McCrumb likens her bestselling books to Appalachian quilts. "I take brightly colored scraps of legends, ballads, fragments of rural life, and local tragedy, and I piece them together into a complex whole that tells not only a story, but also a deeper truth about the culture of the mountain South."
To reserve a copy of the book, phone 291-4821.
Even if you don't have time to read it, feel free to sit in on the discussion and spend some time with fellow mystery fans.
I will be getting together at 1:30 for a brief discussion of last month's book, The Daughter of Time, with a few people who were kept at home because of the extreme weather. Hope you can join us for either session.
Our June 17th selection will be The Circle by Peter Lovesey, who will be next year's Lifetime Achievement Award winner at Malice Domestic. He is the past recipient of just about every mystery award there is, including the prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger.
