Mystery Authors in Berkeley

At Homes. Mystery Readers International often hosts literary salons for visiting and local mystery authors. February looks to be a busy month. At Homes are open to fans, readers and authors. They are held at my home in the Berkeley/Oakland (CA) hills. Space is limited, so please RSVP. I will send you confirmation and directions.

Here's the line-up for some sensational At Homes!

February 11: Lisa Lutz, Gillian Roberts (Judy Greber), and Ona Russell. 7 p.m.
February 18: Leighton Gage 7 p.m
February 26: Peter Robinson 3 p.m. (not the earlier time)*

Tuesday Mystery Readers Group List of Books

Mystery Readers International's East Bay mystery group has been meeting for over 35 years. Hard to believe! We meet every Tuesday night at my home in Berkeley. Sometimes we have a group of books with a theme (Music mysteries, Italian Mysteries, food mysteries, award winners), and sometimes we read just recent good books.

For the Fall group, I've put together a group of well written books that because of an ongoing theme that some will find disturbing will make for good discussion. Interesting that so many news mysteries have the same theme. I've tried to break up that theme with a variety of lighter or different themed books.

September 9 Ariana Franklin's The Mistress of the Art of Death
September 23 Tana French's In the Woods
September 30 Sally Wright's Pursuit and Persuasion
October 7 Jennifer McMahon's Island of Lost Girls
October 14 Laura Lippman's What the Dead Knows
October 21 Martin Suter's A Deal with the Devil
October 28 Lisa Lutz' The Spellman files
November 4 John Hart's The King of Lies
November 11 Rhys Bowen's Her Royal Spyness

Group is open to everyone. Let me know if you'd like to join us.