Starting in 2010 Mystery Mavens will meet on the 4th Wednesday of the month.

No Meeting in June


Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m.
A Nail Through the Heart
by Tim Hallinan
Finding himself embracing domestic life in Bangkok in spite of his love for adventurous travel, writer Poke Rafferty has his world thrown into turmoil by a troubled homeless youth, a distraught woman's missing uncle, and a blackmailing thief.


No Meeting in August


Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m.
China Trade
by S.J. Rozan
Asian-American P.I. Lydia Chin is led into a baffling case of deception, murder, and gang war after being called in to investigate a not-so-simple theft from New York City's Chinatown Museum.


Wednesday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Metzger's Dog
by Thomas Perry
Veteran CIA operative Ben Porterfield is ordered to recover some top-secret papers revealing covert CIA operations in Latin America from the terrorist organization that seized them inadvertently while stealing a million dollars worth of cocaine.


Wednesday, November 24 at 7:30 p.m.
The Song is You
by Meagan Abbott
A fictionalized account based on the mysterious 1949 disappearance of actress Jean Spangler, whose demise was linked to the Black Dahlia killings, is a darkly sensual tale that imagines what may have been her fate. By the Edgar Award-shortlisted author of Die a Little.


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