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Mystery book club : A bird in the hand

Date
Jan 27, 2026
6:00 PM | discussion
7:15 PM | dinner
Location
parlor
Admission
Open to the public
RSVP required
Discussion is FREE to attend
Dinner is paid separately (card only)

About the Event

You are invited to join in the discussion with Salmagundi’s Mystery book club in our Wiggins bar. The discussion is led by the book club founder Gloria Sampson Knight. Ticketed attendees are also invited to join us for an a la carte dinner after the discussion. No reservation for dinner required separately! Continue the conversation of all things mystery over good food and company.

To miss this would be a crime.

About the Book

Book cover for "A Bird in the Hand" by Ann Cleeves featuring a windmill, flying birds, and a river at sunset; text notes it is the first George & Molly Palmer-Jones novel.

In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted—a murderer…

Young Tom French was found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast, with his head bashed in and his binoculars still around his neck. One of the best birders in England, Tom had put the village of Rushy on the birdwatching map. Everyone liked him. Or did they?

About the Author

An older woman with short gray hair smiles, wearing a blue and green sweater, standing in front of a wall covered with various photos.

Ann Cleeves OBE is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black, the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series.

Cleeves’s work was first optioned for television after producer Elaine Collins discovered a copy of one of the Vera novels, The Crow Trap, while searching for holiday reading in an Oxfam shop in north London.

About the Mystery Book Club

Since 2013, the Mystery book club has met monthly with the exception of June and July. The books discussed are primarily mystery novels. Some memorable authors explored have included Agatha Christie, Lee Child, Louise Penny and Ruth Rendell.

Books are selected based on geographic or historical interest, such as works by author Donna Leon whose crime novels are set in Venice, Italy and Peter Tremayne, Celtic scholar and historian whose focus is 7th century Ireland. We have had new authors discuss their writings including Paul Paradise, who writes about murder, trademark counterfeiting, and product piracy and Radha Vatsal, award winning mystery writer whose books center around a young female reporter in New York City during the 1910’s.

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