Our book club is open to all and we welcome new members. We are informal and discussions range from the selected book to others that the members have read during the previous month, as well as movies and TV shows of the genre.

These are the books our Book Club read this past month: The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith; The Whispered Word, The Book of Candlelight, and The Secret Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams; The Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron; Agatha Christie’s Marple: Twelve New Mysteries; The Black Loch by Peter May; Lethal Ladies by Mystery Guild; Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan; Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop by Otto Penzler; The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny; Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea; The Waiting by Michael Connelly; Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty; The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel; The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt; Fatal Error by J.A. Jance; My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni; The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble; Deadly Redemption by Warren C. Easley; Meet Me at Rainbow Corner by Celia Imrie; Guide Me Home and Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke; This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter; Middle of the Night by Riley Sager.

Shakespeare at Book Carnival

If you love The Bard, then join us for Saturday Morning Shakespeare! On the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month at 10:00 A.M., the Saturday Morning Shakespeare Reading Group will read and discuss one of Shakespeare’s plays.

Sisters in Crime at Book Carnival

Mystery lovers of every kind make up our Orange County, California, chapter. We meet the fourth Sunday of the month (unless otherwise noted) at 3:00 P.M., at Book Carnival, to learn, discuss, and have fun with all things related to crime fiction.

Learn more about Sisters in Crime

Featured speaker will be BARBARA PRONIN

Sunday, April 27, at 3:00 P.M.

A former journalist, Barbara Pronin was born in Brooklyn and earned degrees in communications and drama from California State College, Los Angeles. She took turns as an actress, a probation officer, a substitute teacher, a news editor, and a corporate communications director, all while writing six mysteries – three as Barbara Pronin and three as Barbara Nickolae (written with Nickolae Gerstner) — as well as two non-fiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. When she isn’t writing, she’s probably reading, doing the NY Times crossword puzzle in ink, or struggling mightily at the piano. Her newest novel, “Winter’s End,” a WW II historical starring three phenomenal women of the Dutch Resistance, will be published in May, 2025