{"id":36954,"date":"2020-06-16T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=36954"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:52:01","slug":"virtual-book-club-june-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/virtual-book-club-june-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Book Club – June 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you joined our Virtual Book Club yet? Every Wednesday at 2pm central time, we discuss a new book! Using GoTo Meeting, patrons are able to practice social distancing while still participating in a book club through the library. On Wednesday, June 17th, we will be discussing Conviction<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Denise Mina.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Conviction<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Denise Mina is a 2019 piece of murder mystery detective fiction that was the December 2019 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club<\/a>. Curious what the book is about? Check out the following blurb from the publisher:<\/p>\n

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A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife’s present life on a collision course with her secret past in this “blazingly intense” Reese Witherspoon book club pick and\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn).<\/b><\/div>\n
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The day Anna McDonald’s quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone.<\/div>\n
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Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people’s problems are much better than one’s own — a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international conspiracy. But this case actually is Anna’s problem. She knows one of the victims from an earlier life, a life she’s taken great pains to leave behind. And she is convinced that she knows what really happened.<\/div>\n
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Then an unexpected visitor arrives on her front stoop, a meddling neighbor intervenes, and life as Anna knows it is well and truly over. The devils of her past are awakened — and they’re in hot pursuit. Convinced she has no other options, Anna goes on the run, and in pursuit of the truth, with a washed-up musician at her side and the podcast as her guide.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Conviction<\/i>\u00a0is “daredevil storytelling at its finest” (NPR’s\u00a0Fresh Air<\/i>), a breathtaking thriller from one of the most “superbly talented” writers of our time (Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of\u00a0Trust Me<\/i>).<\/div>\n
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This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n