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The Odyssey Bookshop is one of five independent
bookstores participating in WAMC's Roundtable on Tuesday mornings,
just after the 10:00 news. People from the Odyssey will be on about once a
month, talking about our favorite books. The Odyssey Bookshop 413-534-7307 email odysseybks@aol.com
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Mysterious Times at the Odyssey Bookshop The Odyssey Bookshop has a thing for mysteries. On this page you can read about upcoming mystery authors, see the books chosen by our Mystery Book Discussion Group for review and dissection in the coming months, check out staff reviews of some of the latest mysteries and thrillers, and get a list of the recent awards given out in the world of mysteries. Sign up for our special Mystery Email List. You will receive special notices of mystery events at the Odyssey. Author
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Crime Club New: Reserve a seat online. Please take a moment to
reserve your seat for any of these events online. Reserving helps us
better plan for the event, and helps you by assuring that if there are any
changes or cancellations, you will be contacted immediately. Crime at the Odyssey
February 19 • Thursday • 7 pm S.J. Rozan The Shanghai Moon
Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Bill Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Lydia Chin is brought in by colleague and former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades. In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating back to World War II, when Shanghai was an open city providing safe haven for thousands of Jewish refugees. The jewelry, identified as having belonged to one such refugee - Rosalie Gilder - was immediately stolen by a Chinese official who fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to follow any and all leads to the missing jewels. However, Lydia soon learns that there is much more to the story than they’ve been told: The Shanghai Moon, one of the world’s most sought after missing jewels, reputed to be worth millions, is believed to have been part of the same stash. “To read S.J. Rozan is to experience the kind of pure pleasure only a master can deliver.” -- Dennis Lehane March 11 • Wednesday • 7 pm Laura Lippman Life Sentences
Life Sentences, another stunning stand-alone from bestseller Lippman (Baltimore Blues) examines the extraordinary power and fragility of memories. Writer Cassandra Fallows achieved critical and commercial success with an account of her Baltimore childhood growing up in the 1960s and a follow-up dealing with her adult marriages and affairs. The merely modest success of her debut novel leads her back to nonfiction and the possibility of a book about grade school classmate Calliope Jenkins. Accused of murdering her infant son, Jenkins spent seven years in prison steadfastly declining to answer any questions about the disappearance and presumed death of her son. Fallows (white) tries to reconnect with three former classmate friends (black) to compare memories of Jenkins and research her story. In the process, she discovers the gulf (partially racial) that separates her memories of events from theirs. "...a rich, complex journey from self-deception to self-discovery..." -- Publishers' Weekly "Lippman's writing is powerful and her gaze unflinching as she invokes a world in which no one is either entirely guilty or truly innocent." -- Kirkus Reviews
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We very excited to welcome S.J. Rozan
back to the Odyssey, even moreso because, with The Shanghai Moon,
after seven years, she returns to her award-winning, critically
acclaimed characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. 
This is Laura Lippman's
first visit to the Odyssey. She is the acclaimed author of the Baltimore
based Tess Monaghan series as well as several award winning stand alone
books including the NYT bestseller, What the Dead Know.