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"Who Did It?"

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Grammatically Correct

Mystery Book Club

 

Our Mystery Book Club pick for Wednesday, July 21st is Prayer of the Dragon by Eliot Pattison. This is an Inspector Shan Tao Yun mystery set in Tibet! We meet at High Noon at Downtown Bistro.

All Mystery Lovers Welcome!

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Our Mystery for August 18th is The Last Child by John Hart—a thirteen year-old boy and a tormented cop search for the boy's missing sister in rural North Carolina.

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Take an historical novel set in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, add suspicions of witchcraft, lace it with a rousing good mystery, and you've got a winner in Pamela Christie's Dead Lizard's Dance. --Michael McGarrity

On Sept 15th Pamela Christie will be the guest author with her latest mystery, Dead Lizard's Dance!

 

In response to the large number of mystery fans in the Taos community, " 'Who Did It?': A Grammatically Correct Mystery Book Club" was started several years ago, with regular monthly meetings held the third Wednesday of each month as a luncheon meeting at a favorite local eatery. A mystery, recommended by one of the Club members, is selected for discussion at the next meeting. One of the pleasures Club members have experienced is the discovery of new writers. Only a few of the members, for example, had ever read mysteries by the Australian writer, Arthur Upfield, who wrote stories set in the Australian outback with a half-Anglo, half-Aboriginal detective named Napoleon Bonaparte as his protagonist. Tony Hillerman acknowledges his debt to Upfield in creating his own Native American law enforcement characters, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn.

Frequent visits to the Club meetings by mystery writers enhance the discussions. Among the many published mystery writers who have been Club guests speakers are J. Michael Orenduff, Douglas Prescott, Margaret Coel, Jake Page, Rex Burns, Michael McGarrity, Steve Brewer, Robert Westbrook, Walter Satterthwait, John Dunning, James Doss, Pamela Christie, Judith Van Gieson, Christine Goff, Kathy Brandt, Robert Greer, Albert Noyer, P.J. Grady, Connie Shelton, Susan Slater, Steve Havill, Lewis Owens and Ron Querry.

Any lover of mysteries is welcome to attend meetings, which are informal (and sometimes almost rowdy!). Fun-loving about mysteries the members may be, but they take their books seriously.
 

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