Detective Fiction
Thursdays, 10 am - Noon
Facilitators: Sam Bertolet, Andrea Clark, Silvia Madeo, Diane Merritt
Join us for a mixture of cozy and hard-boiled mysteries by a wide variety of authors. We start with the very first book that was read in the first year of this class (2002), The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Next up is The Bitter Past: A Mystery, by Bruce Borgos, featuring retired Army Intelligence officer turned Nevada sheriff Porter Beck. Third on our list is Friends in High Places by Donna Leon, a Commisaro Guido Brunetti story set in Venice, Italy. Fourth is Danish noir author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Keeper of Lost Causes, about Department Q, a cold cases unit in the Copenhagen Police Department. Next is The Maid by Nita Prose, featuring Molly, a maid who is probably on the autism spectrum, works in the Regent Hotel in London, England. Our sixth book is Five Decembers by James Kestrel, 2022 Edgar Award winner, and an epic story that takes place in Hawaii and Japan during and after World War II. Seventh is Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, another award-winning novel that is set in Tokyo and features a physicist named Galileo. We wrap up with Southern Noir crime writer S. A. Cosby’s All Sinners Bleed, which is on the short list for the 2023 Edgar Best Novel and features Titus Crown, a retired FBI agent who is the first Black sheriff in a small Virginia town.