What we’re about
Welcome to the Raleigh/Durham Mystery and True Crime Book Club for Women!
Typically, we meet the 4th Saturday of the month to discuss a mystery (fiction) novel and the 2nd Sunday of every other month to discuss a true crime (non-fiction) book. Members are welcome to attend just one or both of these meetings—your preference!
This is a book club for significantly female-identified people—we use an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female” and we welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are significantly female-identified.
No-show Policy: After two no-shows in a row, or three no-shows overall, you will be permanently removed from the group. We define a no-show as either not showing at all, or canceling within a three-hour window of the beginning of a meeting. Please be conscientious of the other members and keep your RSVPs up-to-date!
Book Selection: We select our books once a year at planning meetings that are separate from a regular book club meeting. Any group member who wants to attend a planning meeting may do so subject to the location space limitation—we welcome ideas for places to meet, including members homes, as well as suggestions for books and special events at planning meetings.
Discord: Join us on discord! https://discord.gg/vfVFTMMScq
Our list of upcoming book selections and dates (and master list of book selections) can be found here.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- The Day That Never Comes (The Dublin Trilogy #2)Bean Traders Inc, Durham, NC
We enjoyed the first book of The Dublin Trilogy so much that now we're reading the second. May's murder mystery is The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell.
From Amazon: "Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what – someone is killing them.
Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the headquarters of a failed bank, the trial of three unscrupulous property developers teeters on the brink of collapse, and in the midst of all this, along comes a mysterious organisation hell-bent on exacting bloody vengeance in the name of the little guy.
Paul Mulchrone doesn’t care about any of this; he has problems of his own. His newly established detective agency is about to be DOA. One of his partners won’t talk to him for very good reasons and the other has seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth for no reason at all. Can he hold it together long enough to figure out what Bunny McGarry’s colourful past has to do with his present absence?
When the law and justice no longer mean the same thing, on which side will you stand?
The Day That Never Comes is the second book in Caimh McDonnell’s Dublin Trilogy, which melds fast-paced action with a distinctly Irish acerbic wit."
- Fortune favors the dead by Stephen SpotswoodNeeds location
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood is June's mystery selection. We have to space out the thrillers!
From Goodreads: "A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.
It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn’t expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian’s multiple sclerosis means she can’t keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian’s very particular art of investigation.
Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed.
But that’s easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca’s relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer’s next target."
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