The Mayhem in the A.M. Book Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at the Henderson Library ~4805 Emerald St. Torrance, CA 90503 ~ 310-371-2075.

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Thursday December 12, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

A 20th-century policeman sees a picture of Richard III and reinvestigates Richard's role in the murder of the princes in the Tower using all available information about Richard's time. Novelist

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Thursday January 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Easy Rawlins only wants respect and enough money to pay his mortgage. When fired from his factory job he undertakes some paid errands for a shady white mobster. As Easy plumbs his usual hangouts for clues, he relays information to the mobster, runs afoul of the police, meets the mysterious woman, discovers a murder, then investigates in self-defense. -- Library Journal

Cover Her Face by P.D. James
Thursday February 13, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is. --Amazon.

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Thursday March 13, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime. --Novelist

Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
Thursday April 10, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion.

Last Policeman by Ben Winters
Thursday May 8, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about. Novelist

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Thursday June 12, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted. – Novelist

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