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The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon Series: Survivors' Book Club Mystery #1
Published by Lyrical Press on June 14, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Pages: 212
Format: ARC, Audiobook
Source: Netgalley
The New York Times bestelling author of the Tourist Trap mysteries launches a new series perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club. New-age Sedona, Arizona seemed like the perfect place to open up a bookstore devoted to healing. But when a member of a local cancer survivor support book club goes missing, will this group’s sleuthing skills be enough to find her?
Two things got Rarity Cole through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity is devoting her life to helping others find their way through the maze to healing. She’s opened a bookstore focusing on the power of healing—Eastern medicine, Western medicine, the healing power of food, the power of meditation, and the importance of developing a support community. To that end, she’s also started the Tuesday Night Survivors book club. With its openness to new-age communities, Sedona, Arizona, is the perfect fit for Rarity’s bookstore and the tightly knit group.
But their therapeutic unity is disrupted when one of their members suddenly goes missing. Martha has always kept to herself, never opening up much of her personal life to the group. Now she’s nowhere to be found. With her car abandoned on a trail and her dog left with a friend, Rarity is sure something terrible had happened—but will she be able to uncover Martha’s secrets before it’s too late?
Honestly! I would read anything by Lynn Cahoon and also I have a new favorite audiobook narrator! I love that this story is set in a place where things aren’t vaguely permanently Christianized (ie, there’s a fortune teller, a crystal shop, etc), and I love that it doesn’t necessarily center around the main character’s bookshop, but rather the cancer survivor book club that she runs. There’s copaganda here in the form of a very handsome cop, who is also the love interest for the two main characters. The only worries I have about this series – which I would definitely pick up another of, due to LYNN CAHOON !!! – is that I don’t see how the next books in the series can have pun titles. Which is an important factor of the genre! Not a lot of focus on the mystery in this one, it was definitely the least important part of the book, but there was a lot of interesting character work. Four stars.
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