For the January meeting, the group will read “Swan Song” by Edmund Crispin. Join the discussion on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. in the Civic Center Library Board Room, 1188 S. Livermore Ave. Registration is not required to attend the meeting.

Book summary: When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's “Die Meistersinger,” its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse, but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own dressing room when the door is being watched and no one has gone in or out? In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders and cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament.

Book Clubs at the Livermore Public Library