Tuesday, June 2, 2015

July 2015 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday July 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm in the second floor meeting room. The book we will be discussing is, Some Danger Involved by by Will Thomas. This is the first story featuring Cyrus Baker and Thomas Llewelyn and is set in Victorian London.

The book description from the author's website is: "When a student bearing a striking resemblance to artists' renderings of Jesus Christ is found murdered --by crucifixion-- in London's Jewish ghetto, 19th century private detective Barker must hire an assistant to help him solve the sinister case. Out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved" the eccentric and enigmatic Barker chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man whose murky past includes recent stints at both an Oxford college and an Oxford prison. As Llewelyn learns the ropes of his position, he is drawn deeper and deeper into Barker's peculiar world of vigilante detective work, as well as the dark heart of London's teeming underworld. Together they pass through chophouses, stables, and clandestine tea rooms, tangling with the early Italian mafia, a mad professor of eugenics, and other shadowy figures, inching ever closer to the shocking truth behind the murder."