This group meets the first Wednesday of the month, September through December and February through June, at 3 p.m. at the Wallingford Public Library. We read both classic and contemporary mysteries and have been meeting since 2011. Beginning in Fall 2025, the group is meeting on Zoom only. Books are chosen thematically; this Spring’s theme is “Booked for Murder,” mysteries with booksellers or librarians as the detectives.
Spring 2026: Booked for Murder (only on Zoom)
For those of us who love to read, libraries and bookstores are special, treasured places. It’s no wonder that some authors have made librarians and booksellers the heroes/heroines of their detective novels. Here are five of the most famous.
February 4: Lawrence Block, The Burglar in the Library (1997)
March 4: John Dunning, Bookman’s Promise (2004)
April 8*: Joan Hess, A Conventional Corpse (2000)
May 6: Charlaine Harris, Poppy Done to Death (2003)
June 3: Walter Mosley, Fear Itself (2003)
*delayed one week due to religious holiday
