Mystery Lovers Book Club at Portage Public Library meets monthly to discuss current and classic mystery stories! We have read a plethora of authors (we try to find a new one every time!) and are always on the prowl for a good mystery story we haven't read, yet.
Read, enjoy, and discuss a good mystery with a group of great people! Meets the second Tuesday of each month from 1:30-2:30 PM. No registration required. Just read the book and show up!
Books are available on the Holds shelf.
Upcoming Titles for 2025:
MAY
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.
JUNE
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin.
The author of numerous best-selling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, although no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. Things go awry as the baking competition begins. At first, it’s merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned too high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect.