MYSTERY MAVENS

Mystery Mavens will meet on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6PM at The Original Roadhouse Grill, 15156 Whittier Blvd., Whittier, CA 90603, near Whittwood.  We will discuss The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.  Kay Clark will lead our review.

“A woman crosses a London street.  It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service.  Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case.  And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material.  As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz—a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories—suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery.

But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes that he’s at the center of a story he can’t control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.”

Our books for the 2025-2026 year are listed below, as they were chosen by our members at our May meeting.  All are welcome to join us on November 19, 2025.

Books for 2025-2026

January 21     The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, reviewed by Lisbeth Solberg

March 18       Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron, reviewed by Cindy Birt

May 20          The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, reviewed by Linda Oberholtzer

 

Sharon Heck