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Virtual Mystery Book Club

Join us each month as we discuss a different mystery novel. The book for December is Deacon King Kong by James McBride.

The Mystery Book Club meets via Zoom on the 2nd Friday of the month at 7:00pm.
Starting in 2022 we will meet the 1rst Thursday of each month.
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Find Deacon King Kong in our catalog here!

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

“In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The novel brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.

As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways.”

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