Mystery Book Club

VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON MEETING

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro 

25 years after an infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to a young artist who has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the painting in exchange for a one-woman show. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece may itself be a forgery.

Spring 2025 – Mystery without Murder – Detective novels are almost always about murder.  The loss of life focuses the reader’s attention as no other crime can. Yet some of the most popular writers of the genre of the 20^th and 21^st centuries – including grande dames Josephine Tey and Dorothy L. Sayers – have written mysteries without murders. This spring we'll read five — one from Tey and four from some contemporary authors.