Murder Among Friends

Where mysteries are discussed and plotted -- at Lisle Library!

Pull up your virtual armchair & talk about group book selections, authors, events, & all things of a mysterious nature we can come up with!

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Mystery Book Discussions

Monthly Meetings

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Lisle Library's Mystery book discussion group, Murder Among Friends, is held: In the Library
(3rd Thursday of the month, September through June)
With refreshments!
(7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.)
Book titles are listed in the Events section of this page, on the Calendar link of the Lisle Library web site, and on bookmarks available at the library.

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Created by Patricia Ruocco Mar 10, 2009 at 12:46pm. Last updated by Patricia Ruocco 15 hours ago.

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Members

  • Patricia Ruocco
  • Terry Kerr
  • Brian Kavanagh
  • Frednands
  • Valaney Liontonia
  • Tatiana
  • Jen O.
  • Nancy
  • Luisa Buehler
  • Rima Nair
  • Teri Hock
  • J. D. Webb
  • Sarah Baker
  • Shane Gericke
  • Allan E. Ansorge
  • Juli S.

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Welcome! to the latest way to catch up with mystery readers at Lisle Library District in Lisle, IL. All postings are public, thus viewable by the entire Web community. Please keep this in mind, and mind the Rules......

The nominees for this year's Edgar Awards -- the Mystery Writers of America's (MWA) highest award -- have been announced! Just click on the graphic to get to the list on the MWA web site. Click on our Edgar "Casefile" to see the books the library owns or has on order.

Edgar Casefile

Edgar Nominee Graphic

Don't forget to check out the MAF Blogger

Blog section for late-breaking Mystery news as well as member posts to the group, such as the dates and early information for the Love is Murder Conference coming in 2011.

Forum

Patricia Ruocco

Continuing Our Discussion on "Death of a Cozy Writer" 2 Replies

Started by Patricia Ruocco. Last reply by Valaney Liontonia Jan 6.

Patricia Ruocco

Continuing Our Discussion of "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry 1 Reply

Started by Patricia Ruocco. Last reply by Patricia Ruocco Nov. 20, 2009.

Blog Posts

Patricia Ruocco

About the book, "Meely LaBauve" highly recommended by Bryan Gruley

Just wanted to let you all know that we are getting the book, Meely LaBauve by Ken Wells, that Bryan talked about when he came for our January meeting. It will be in the Fiction section -- it's begin cataloged, but you can put a hold on it. Click the Polaris icon to go to our record for it in the catalog.

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Posted by Patricia Ruocco on February 5, 2010 at 3:33pm

Patricia Ruocco

For Those Who REALLY Like to Plan Ahead: An Update on the 2011 "Love is Murder" Mystery Conference


Thanks to Luisa, we got the new bookmarks for the 2011 Love is Murder Conference that had the following key points. Love is Murder will be held February 4-6, 2011 at the… Continue

Posted by Patricia Ruocco on January 22, 2010 at 2:00pm

Patricia Ruocco

Celebrated Mystery Author, Robert B. Parker passed away on Monday, January 18th, 2010


One of the legendary figures in mystery fiction, Parker is the author of the Spencer series and the Jesse Stone series, as well as other series and stand-alone crime novels. A former Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America (in 2002), Parker was as well-liked as his books were well-loved. Here a… Continue

Posted by Patricia Ruocco on January 22, 2010 at 2:00pm

Brian Kavanagh

Mystery location.

This link is to Richmond, Surrey which is the location for the Belinda Lawrence mystery, BLOODY HAM. A wonderful location - for a murder!
http://www.visitlondon.com/maps/podcasts/richmond-kingston-video-podcast/
Cheers,
Brian
Bloody Ham. Read 50% free!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7965

Posted by Brian Kavanagh on January 20, 2010 at 7:05pm

Patricia Ruocco

Nice Publishers Weekly interview with Murder Among Friends selected author Robert Crais

Here's the link to a recent interview that Publishers Weekly did with Robert Crais, author of The Monkey's Raincoat -- and one of our favorite Men of Mystery! Just click on the "PW".


Posted by Patricia Ruocco on January 5, 2010 at 5:00pm

Our Mystery Selections from 9/09 - 6/10 & Anthony Awards -- Nominees and Winners from Bouchercon 2009

Book Selections 9/2009 - 6/2010

Here is the list we came up with for the books we'll be reading starting in September! Thanks to everyone who came and sent in suggestions I think we ended up with some great reads to look forward to this year!

September 17th - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

October 22nd - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria Laurie

November 19th - The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

December 17th - Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet

January 21st - Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

February 18th - Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong

March 18th - Hot by Julia Harper

April 15th - The Dark Place by Aaron Elkins

May 20th - Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller

June 17th - In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

We've been busy hunting down Large Print versions of our book selections and were able to come up with the following titles that we have (or are ordering) so that there's a large print version available. Please note: the links below for these books are included so you can check to see if the large print version is on the shelf or not. To specifically reserve the large print copy, you need to contact library staff (630-971-1675).

September 17th - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

November 19th - The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

December 17th - Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet

January 21st - Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley


This year's Bouchercon was held in Indianapolis at the Hyatt Regency from October 15th - October 18th. The Bouchercon, also known as the World Crime Convention, includes authors, editors, publishers and fans, of all forms of the mystery. Anthony Awards are voted on by all registered attendees. Winners were announced at the Hilbert Circle Theater. You can click on the award picture below to get a bigger -- and better! -- idea of how beautiful
this award is.

Now here's the list of nominees and winners (Winners are in Gold ):

Best Novel

Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow]
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur]


Best First Novel

Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur]
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central]

Best Paperback Original

The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley]
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell]
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish [Pocket Star]

Best Short Story

“The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe [Ace]
“A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover from Hardcore Hardboiled [Kensington]
“Killing Time” by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November)
“Skull and Cross Examination” by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February)
“Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman from Hardly Knew Her [William Morrow]
“The Secret Lives of Cats” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July)

Best Critical NonFiction Work

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland]
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson [Perseverance Press]
Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks [McFarland]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale [Walker & Company]

Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery

The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein [Random House]
Paper Towns by John Green [Dutton Juvenile]
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson [Delacorte]
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart [Little, Brown]
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen [Knopf]

Best Cover Art

Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein and written by Linda L. Richards [Minotaur]
Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein and written by Elizabeth Zelvin [Minotaur]
The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure [Minotaur]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund and written by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]

Special Service Award

Jon and Ruth Jordan
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman








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Recently Added Mysteries at Lisle Library - A.K.A. :

Murder Among Friends Logo

This is a new feature on our ning where I'll be posting the perpetrators of new crime fiction that we've just put on the New Fiction shelf at the Lisle Library. Click on the "Booking" mug shot to request it from the library. Click on the "Charges" to see what reviewers/publishers have to say about the book! (If the link goes to the book's Amazon listing, it is because this was the best link to see reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, etc.) Hopefully, this will aid you in tracking down criminous authors you want to pursue...















Booklists used at the 2009 Planning Meeting

The following are the files that Valaney and I prepared for this year's planning meeting. The one I did includes all the suggestions I got from the rest of you prior to the meeting. Thanks again for helping this to be one of our best planning sessions yet!
Valaney_Reading List for Murder Among Friends _20 August 2009.wpd

BooklistforAugust2009.xls

Latest Activity

Patricia Ruocco added a note
Here are the nominees in the major categories that were picked by the author members of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for this year's Edgars. There are links to the library's copies for the titles we currently have. This list will be updated…
9 hours ago
Patricia Ruocco updated an event
February 18, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Nominated for a Private Eye Writers of America Shamus award, Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong offers the reader an ambiguous heroine in former Canadian police detective -- current private hit woman, Nadia Stafford. "Retired" from police service…
yesterday
Patricia Ruocco added an event
April 15, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
In his novel The Dark Place author Aaron Elkins established the tone and direction for all the succeeding Gideon Oliver mysteries. Gideon, the original "bone detective", is often referred to as the Sherlock Holmes of Bones. A title he works har…
yesterday
Patricia Ruocco added a blog post
Just wanted to let you all know that we are getting the book, Meely LaBauve by Ken Wells, that Bryan talked about when he came for our January meeting. It will be in the Fiction section -- it's begin cataloged, but you can put a hold on it. Click th…
on Friday
 
 

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