Up the Creek Book Club

Current Book Selection

January's book is
The Snowman
by Jo Nesbo

"Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf.

Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother—and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised—and constantly revised—by the killer.

Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time. " (Publisher)

Meeting News

Next meeting will be Wdnesday, February 22nd at 4pm with the hopes Amanda can join us. We will meet at Anne's and we will be picking books, so bring your suggestions.

If you can't make it to this month's meeting but would like your comments and/or rating included, please e-mail us your remarks.

Next Month's Selection

February's book will be
To Be Announced

Last Month's Selection

December's book was
The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht

"In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with "the deathless man". But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. " (Publisher)

Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction