Mystery Readers NorCal Winter Reading List: Foreign Lands

The Mystery Readers NorCal Mystery Book Group meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Berkeley, CA. The present session is now closed to new participants, but you might want to read along with us and send comments.

Foreign Lands

January 6 Ghana: Kwei Quartey Wife of the Gods

January 13 Egypt Elizabeth Peters Tomb of the Golden Bird

January 20 West Indies Timothy Williams Another Sun

February 3 Cuba: Leonardo Padura Fuentes Adios Hemingway

February 10 France: Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen Treachery in Bordeaux

February 17 Greece: Jeffrey Siger Sons of Sparta

February 24 Denmark Sara Blaedel Only One Life

March 3 Italy Timothy Williams Black August

Winter Literary Salons: Open to all. Also held in Berkeley. Please make a comment with email address to be added to notification list.

January 9: 2 p.m. Charles Todd (Charles and Caroline Todd)

February 5:  Timothy Williams

February 23: Possibly Sara Blaedel

Future Salons: Libby Fischer Hellmann, Cara Black

Winter Reading List: Mystery Readers Book Group, Berkeley

Several readers have asked what our Mystery Book Group is reading this Winter, so I thought I'd post the list. This list is a mix of foreign setting books and some foreign award winners.. and the Knopf is the Nero Wolf winner.  I think it will make for excellent discussions. We meet every Tuesday night in Berkeley, CA. Our group has been meeting for over 30 years.

WINTER READING LIST

January 7:     Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller 

January 14:   The Missing File by D.A. Mishani

January 21    Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstol

January 28     Death on Demand by Paul Thomas

February 4    A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski

February 11    Dead Anyway by Chris Knopf

February 18   The Collini Case by Ferndinand Von Schirach

February 25    Death in Florence by Marco Vichi

And two other mysteries we may be adding:

How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay

The Doll’s House by Louise Phillips

Winter Mystery Book Group

Mystery Readers International's NorCal Mystery Readers Book Group is still going strong. We meet every Tuesday night in Berkeley, CA. Read along and send comments!

January 8      The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

January 15    The Double Game by Dan Fesperman

January 22    The Blackhouse by Peter May

January 29    The Paris Deadline by Max Byrd

February 5     Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham

February 12   Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

February 19   Death on the Pont Noir by Adrian Magson

February 26   The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters

March 5         Not Dead Yet by Peter James

March 12       Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson

Spring Mystery Book Group: Award Nominees

Our Mystery Book Group has been meeting every Tuesday night in Berkeley (CA) for more years than you can imagine. We usually do a session in the Spring on Crime Fiction nominees. The nominees come from the Edgars, the Barrys and other awards. We've already read and discussed some of the nominees, so I chose a variety from different categories, different awards, and different types of mystery.

SPRING READING LIST - MYSTERY READERS NORCAL

April 10   1222 by Anne Holt

April 17   Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

April 24   The Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman

May 1      Learning to Swim by Sara Henry

May 8      Dead Man’s Grip by Peter James

May 15    Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson

May 22    All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen

May 29    The Informant by Thomas Perry

June 5      Field Gray Philip Kerr

Literary Salons:

April 3: Hilary Davidson & Brad Parks 7 p.m.

June 12: Bryan Gruley 7 p.m.

June 19: Katherine Hall Page 2 p.m.