The Mayhem in the A.M. Book Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at the Henderson Library ~4805 Emerald St. Torrance, CA 90503 ~ 310-371-2075.

 

    

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Thursday, February 13, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Chief detective Carl Morck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician. (via Novelisthen a member of the small but growing Asian community of Balford-le-Nez is found dead, the sleepy seaside town ignites, and Sergeant Barbara Havers, working without her long-time partner, must find the killer before the price of deception becomes more than anyone can afford.  

 

 

 

 

The Lighthouse by P.D. James
Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior.

  

  

 

 

Green for Danger by Christianna Brand 
Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill to the hospital. As an air raid detains the inspector for the night, the stage is set for a tense and claustrophobic investigation with a close-knit cast of suspects in this golden age masterclass of red herrings and tricky twists. 

  

  

 

The Wycherly Woman by Ross MacDonald
Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Lew Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe’s mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.

 

 

 

 

Slow Horses by Mick Herron  
Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominent British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.

 

 

 

 

View a list of our previous selections here.