Mystery Book Club

Program Type:

Book Discussion

Age Group:

Adults
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VIRTUAL MEETING

Bookman's Promise by John Dunning

In this third installment in the Cliff Janeway series, 90-year-old Josephine Gallant persuades the former Denver cop turned antiquarian bookseller to try to recover a rare collection of the works of Richard Burton ("the explorer, not the actor") that once belonged to her grandfather. Janeway begins an investigation that takes him to a seedy used bookshop and other strange haunts, where he runs into a shady writer and a gang of thugs on the hunt for the same literary treasures.

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Moderated by Professor and Author Carole Shmurak. To participate, contact Carole at cshmurak@gmail.com and put "Wallingford Mystery Book Club" in the subject line.