
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)
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...
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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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...
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller
DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous paperback edition featuring bright green sprayed edges.
Now in paperback, a dark reimagining of "Snow White" steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind, from New York Times bestselling and Hugo...
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...
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
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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#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
...
Murder After Christmas (British Library Crime Classics)
"[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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