"Mysteries at Lunch" Book Group
January -June 2026

Our book group meets at 12:15 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month downstairs in the meeting room. Copies of discussion books will be available at the front desk one month before the group meets.

The Girl From Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig
Standalone Mystery - America @ 250
Wednesday, January 21

Bitter rivals Hamilton and Burr unite to defend a carpenter accused of murdering Elma Sands, a mysterious young woman found in a well, intertwining a high-profile trial with their own political ambitions and personal enmity.

A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly
Historical Series Mystery
Wednesday, February 18

In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister's aide to expose a traitor in their midst.

The Stolen Child by Ann Hood
Historical Standalone Mystery
Wednesday, March 18

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands - and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery.

Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Series Mystery
Wednesday, April 15

On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real, and the rest instantly become suspects. Steven's take on "Murder On The Orient Express."

Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
Historical Standalone Mystery
Wednesday, May 20

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of land barons hungry for power and oil wealth. Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law and the battle to see justice done.

Farm to Trouble by Amanda Flower
Summer Reading Series Mystery
Wednesday, June 17

Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found dead at the farmers market not long after the contract is signed, a contract that the whole town knows her father was wholeheartedly against.