Mystery Book Club

VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON MEETING

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black

Pathologist Quirke is surly and fond of drink in 1950s Dublin. One evening he returns to the morgue after a party to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman’s corpse. After he decides to look into her history, he discovers a plot that implicates the Catholic Church and members of his own family.

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.