Join fellow Natchitoches readers excited about our evening book club, Literary Lagniappe. JANUARY’S book is THE QUEENS OF CRIME by Marie Benedict, with discussion guided by Marné Deranger. A lifelong reader, Marné collaborates with authors and publishers, reviewing new releases and helping her followers discover their ideal books and audiobooks. She says this book is “for my friends who want an Ocean's Eight-style historical fiction featuring real-life mystery writers solving a fictional murder.”  Follow her as ReaderByTheWater on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to her free Substack Newsletter for more book information.

NOTE: January's Book Club will be held on WEDNESDAY due to a scheduling conflict.

LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE THERE BY CLICKING HERE TODAY — includes a themed dinner and complimentary wine.

Your Price: $28.00 (just bring your book and your thoughts; we’ll provide everything else).*

Book Info:

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second-class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.

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