Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
Adult- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on December 2, 2025 @ 1:00pm.
- This event uses combined registration. If you register for this event, you will also be registering for all other occurrences.
Program Description
Details
The library's Mystery Book Club meets at 1 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome.
Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.
Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!
This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC
For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Fleming Spencer
It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation and Chief of Police Russ Van Alystyne. When a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow that town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains.