Mystery/Thriller Book Club (March)

Name: Mystery/Thriller Book Club (March)
Start: 2025-03-24T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-24T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401

Schedule

Mon Mar 24 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401 | Mason City, IA

Tell all your book friends who enjoy reading about twists and turns and murder and mayhem that our Mystery/Thriller Book Club is the club for them. This club will meet every 4th Monday of the month at 5:30 pm. Our book for March is Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater.
Meetings last about an hour and discussions are led by one of our staff bookworms. This is a casual, no-commitment book club. There is no fee to participate but we'd appreciate you buying the book club book from us or making another purchase of your choice while you're here. This will help us keep events like this going. Copies of the book are available for purchase now in the store. You can also reserve your copy online here: https://threebellsbooks.com/item/cxZGEWkoF-eSXUMdE8qYiw
About the book:
Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she’s worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children’s bookseller, arrives to help rejuvenate the struggling bookstore branch, Roach recognizes in her an unexpected kindred spirit. Despite their common interest in true crime, Laura keeps her distance from Roach, resisting the other woman’s overtures of friendship. Undeterred, Roach learns everything she can about her new colleague, eventually uncovering Laura’s traumatic family history. When Roach realizes that she may have come across her very own true crime story, interest swiftly blooms into a dangerous obsession. A darkly funny suspense novel, Death of a Bookseller raises ethical questions about the fervor for true crime and how we handle stories that don’t belong to us.