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 Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis; High Crimes by Joseph Finder; Book of Candlelight, The Little Lost Library, and Paper Cuts by Ellery Adams; The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave; Eleven Numbers by Lee Child; A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge; The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler; Never Lie by Freida McFadden; The Perfect Alibi by Phillip Margolin; None of This is True by Lisa Jewell; The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (not a mystery); Shot In The Dark and Billionaires Blend by Cleo Coyle; Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson; Someone Always Knows by Marcia Miller; Head Cases by John McMahon; The Waiting by Michael Connelly; The Fire Maker by Peter May; Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano; Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney; There There by Tommy Orange; See How They Hide by Allison Brennan; Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman; Billionaires Blend by Cleo Coyle; Miracle Creek and Happiness Falls by Angie Kim; The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz; Whistle by Linwood Barclay; Blood Moon by Sandra Brown; The Wedding People by Alison Espach, Jill Is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda.

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 choses a play.

On April 12, Chris Van Steenbergen will present The Merchant of Venice.

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.