Mysterious Undertakings Book Group

When: Every First Monday at 6:30 p.m.
(in cases where the First Monday coincides with a holiday, Mysterious Undertakings will meet on the following Monday)
Where: Waldo Branch
Contact: Marty Hatten at 816.701.3486

The Mysterious Undertakings Book Group reads contemporary and classic mysteries. The group takes turns facilitating.

2012 Schedule

January 9
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Fleming.

February 6
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

As a young boy in Barcelona, Daniel belongs to an underground literary preservation group that gifts him a rare book – so rare, that Daniel soon identifies it as the sole surviving manuscript by an author whose work is being systematically destroyed. When the devil comes calling to burn that final copy, Daniel and fellow literary acolytes seek refuge in the plazas and narrow alleyways of the Gothic Quarter even as they investigate hidden meanings and portentous signs found within the text. Incredibly faithful to the City of Counts – despite imaginative additions such as the Cemetery of Lost Books and the Hospice of Santa Lucia – Zafon counters these touches by grounding the story in Franco’s Spain.

March 5
Faithful Place by Tana French.

April 2
Silent Scream by Lynda La Plante.

Previous Reads:
December 2011 Conviction by Richard North Patterson.
November 2011 The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova.
October 2011 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
September 2011 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
August 2011 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
July 2011 Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander.
June 2011 The Water Room by Christopher Fowler.
May 2011 Stardust by Joseph Kanon.
April 2011 The Ghost by Robert Harris.
March 2011 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
February 2011 Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child.
January 2011 Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black.