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Traps & Trenchcoats Book Club

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If you've ever pictured yourself in a trenchcoat and fedora, helping knock-out dames and questioning rough characters, then we've got the book club for you! We'll be revisiting some of the greatest classic mysteries and reading some new takes on the mystery genre as well. Join your fellow mystery lovers for great discussions and figuring out whodunits.

Traps & Trenchcoats meets on the FIRST Monday of every month at 6:00pm 

at the PFA Admin building 102 Remington (unless otherwise noted).

As with all our book clubs, our monthly selection is 20% off if you ask for your book club discount in the store.

All are welcome at the Traps and Trenchcoats meetings! Email Robin at homerun2@prodigy.net if the meeting location is not listed and you're interested in coming! 

 

2026 Selections

May 4:
Kamogawa Food Detectives
by Hisashi Kashiwai

June 1:
Ward D
by Freida McFadden

July 6:
Fortune Favors the Dead 
by Stephen Spotswood

August 3:
Hemlock & Silver
by T. Kingfisher

August 31:
Nightwatching 
by Tracy Sierra

October 5:
Butter 
by Asako Yuzuki 

November 2:
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession 
by Michel Finkel 

December 7:
Murder After Christmas
by Rupert Latimer

 

 

 

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel #1)

Current price: $28.00
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780593717714
Publish Date:

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?


Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and...

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Ward D

Current price: $17.99
Paperback
ISBN:
9781464227271
Publish Date:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden!

All she has do is make it through the night shift...

Ward D is the hospital's mental health unit and as a medical student, Amy is required to gain experience on the floor. But little do her colleagues know it may force her to confront a past...

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Fortune Favors the Dead: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

Current price: $17.00
Paperback
ISBN:
9780593310755
Publish Date:

A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.

“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a...

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Nightwatching: A Novel

Current price: $18.00
Paperback
ISBN:
9780593654781
Publish Date:

Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Pick for 2024

“Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.” —Elle

“Nightwatching is like nothing I’ve read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it’s amazing.” —Lisa Jewell

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.

Home alone with...

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Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

Current price: $19.99
Paperback
ISBN:
9780063236417
Publish Date:

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

The cult Japanese bestseller, a literary thriller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story

There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.

Gourmet cook Manako Kajii...

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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Current price: $18.00
Paperback
ISBN:
9781984898456
Publish Date:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub

...

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Murder After Christmas (British Library Crime Classics)

Current price: $14.99
Paperback
ISBN:
9781728261218
Publish Date:

"[Murder After Christmas] supplies cheerfully calculating relatives, decorously brutal dialogue, and a fiendishly intricate set of Chinese boxes before the surprising reveal...no, they don't make them like this anymore."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"A war's on and a murder has been committed—and...

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