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Book Club (hybrid)

Date and Time

Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 1:30 PM until 3:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-06:00)

Location

Alicia Ashman Library OR Zoom
733 N High Point Rd
Madison, WI  53713
USA
608-824-1780
Videoconference information will be provided in an email once payment is received.

Event Contact(s)

SAIL - Sharing Active Independent Lives
608-230-4321 (p)

Category

SAIL Social Gathering

Registration Info

Registration is required
This month's group will be hybrid

About this event

Book for this month: A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford book #7) by Charles Todd

Member Christine M. says “I enjoyed this mystery as historical fiction—it is set in England and France near the end of the first World War. Reading, I felt immersed in this earlier time. The book follows an engaging young woman, a nurse whose work and family connections provide opportunity to encounter a varied cast of characters.”

A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Question of Honor and An Unwilling Accomplice. 
An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It’s called an appalling tragedy—until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous show of hostility that doesn’t stop with Philip Ashton’s arrest. Indeed, someone is out for blood, and the household is all but under siege.
The only known witness to the tragedy is now at the Front in France. Bess is asked to find him. When she does, he refuses to tell her anything that will help the Ashtons. Realizing that he believes the tissue of lies that has nearly destroyed a family, Bess must convince him to tell her what really happened that terrible Sunday morning. But now someone else is also searching for this man.
To end the vicious persecution of the Ashtons, Bess must risk her own life to protect her reluctant witness from a clever killer intent on preventing either of them from ever reaching England.