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Oct 29, 2024

THE MANHATTAN BOOK CLUB NaNoWriMo Novel Idea # 7

 THE MANHATTAN BOOK CLUB

NaNoWriMo Novel Idea # 7



The five women in the Manhattan Book Club meet monthly to discuss a new mystery they have read and to gossip. What is important to understand is the club’s name has nothing to do with the city that never sleeps. The club is named after the ladies’ preferred pre-dinner cocktail, the Manhattan. The women, Charlotte Mayerling, Connie Shoemaker, Marla Townson, Katherine Wilmore, and Gail Wonderlich first met when chance placed them at the same table for a local author’s book reading. After the reading, Charlotte Mayerling who was with her friend Connie Shoemaker mentioned they were going to Charlie’s Traven on the Water for lunch, and asked if the other women would like to join them. Over crab cakes and wine, the women discovered they each loved reading, especially mysteries, and they agreed life in the small resort town of South Haven, Michigan wasn’t very exciting, especially for retired career women in their late sixties.

Over time, the five became close friends. On Saturday, they might go shopping at the local thrift stores, walk the art and wine trail, or attend music in the park. On one Tuesday a month, they played Bunco with a group at the senior center. On the first Friday of the month, they met for lunch and cocktails.  The supposed purpose was to talk about the book they had read. Often, they talked about their current and past lives and never discussed the book.

This Friday, Gail Wonderlich admitted she didn’t finish the book, saying it was duller than her life. Joking, Charlotte Mayerling said what the club needed was a spicy sex murder. Which is exactly what happens.

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