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.
