Book Club

Join a group of reading enthusiasts monthly to make new friends and discuss exciting novels over coffee and snacks. This group will meet the third Wednesday of each month at the Tower Barracks Library. 

For our meeting in January, we will be reading “The Lost Apothecary” by Sarah Penner, a detective/mystery historical fiction set in 18th century London. 

Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. 

Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary's in a stunning twist of fate, and not everyone will survive.