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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