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| Phone: 860-258-7621 (Main) | Mon - Wed: 9:30 - 8:00 |
| Phone: 860-258-7623 (Info) | Thurs - Fri: 9:30 - 5:00 |
| E-mail: cora@rockyhillct.gov | Saturday: 9:30 - 5:00 |
Welcome! Come join our Mystery Book Discussion! Registration is required via our online calendar. Extra copies of each book will be available to checkout from the library. Please contact the Information Desk at 860-258-7623 with any questions!
Here is a schedule of the upcoming discussions:
Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman
April 24 @ 6:30 pm (New Date)
New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in the music. No one asks where she came from or how much money she has. No one bats an eye if she flirts with men or women as long as she can keep up on the dance floor. At The Nightingale, Vivian forgets the dangers of Prohibition-era New York and finds a place that feels like home. But then she discovers a body behind the club, and those dangers come knocking. Caught in a police raid at the Nightingale, Vivian discovers that the dead man wasn't the nameless bootlegger he first appeared. With too many people assuming she knows more about the crime than she does, Vivian finds herself caught between the dangers of the New York's underground and the world of the city's wealthy and careless, where money can hide any sin and the lives of the poor are considered disposable.
Capt. Roger Blanc was too successful as an investigator with the anti-corruption-unit of the French Gendarmerie. He is sent from Paris to the south of France, which destroys his marriage. There he gets his first murder case: A man with no friends and a lot of enemies was found shot and burned. When a second man dies, Blanc has to dig deep into the dark undersides of Provence.
