Mystery Book Club

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In the Woods by Tana French

When Katherine Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Detective Rob Ryan probes into the victim's troubled family history. To complicate matters, there are chilling similarities between the Devlin murder and the disappearance 20 years earlier of two children from the same neighborhood who were Ryan's best friends.

Fall 2024: Murder on the Emerald Isle

William Drennan, political activist, physician, poet and later member of the Irish Parliament, was the first to use the term "Emerald Isle" to describe Ireland in his poem "When Erin First Rose" (1795): "Let no feeling of vengeance presume to defile/The cause of, or men of, the Emerald Isle." Drennan wrote in response to the ongoing political unrest, disapproving of the violence that turned green meadows blood-red. Over two centuries later, murder can still turn parts of Ireland red.