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August 23, 2021 Meeting
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The Bishop's Wife by ISBN: 9781616954765Publication Date: 2014-12-30Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. Her days are filled with community service and informal counselling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church's patriarchal structure and secrecy, especially as a disturbing situation takes shape in the ward. One cold winter morning, a neighbour, Jared Helm, appears on the Wallheims' doorstep with his five-year-old daughter, claiming that his wife, Carrie, disappeared in the middle of the night, leaving behind everything she owns.
August 23, 3021
More about Mette Ivie Harrison
The author is a fascinating woman, a Ph.D at 23, mother of five, a triathalete and currently divorcing her husband. She is now reconsidering her Mormon faith and her life's journey. Click the link for her full biography.
August 23, 2021 Meeting
Our next meeting will be held at 7:00 on Monday August 23, via Zoom. The book we are reading is The Bishop's Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison.
The book is available on Libby as an e-book and on Hoopla as an audiobook, and print copies are available as well.
Please go to the New City Events Calendar to sign up for the next meeting. Or, can copy and paste this URL in your browser: https://newcity.librarycalendar.com/events/investigating-mysteries-0 You must sign up for each meeting you want to attend.
After you sign up, you will be emailed the link for the August 23 meeting If you haven't used Zoom before, you need to download the app to your mobile device, or install it on your PC or laptop. Please call me if you have any questions at 845-634-4997 extension 140.
Even though we can't meet in person, I look forward to a lively discussion and seeing as many of you as can make it.
September 27, 2021
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Purple Cane Road by Call Number: Mystery BurkeISBN: 9780375430558Publication Date: 2000-08-01Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. PURPLE CANE ROAD has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surpises from start to finish.
September 23, 2021
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More About James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose, and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
About Investigating Mysteries
Our group had been meeting once a month since September, 2005. We meet the fourth Monday of every month. If you love mysteries, why not investigate mysteries with us? New members are always welcome! Meetings begin at 7:00 P.M.