We have a tentative date for our next London Book Club meetup and are open to meeting spots. Right now our date is 7 May, 3 PM and meeting at Waterloo station's downstairs Starbucks, perhaps to move on to a different location after everyone gets there.
We will be reading
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin at Mr A's request.
This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, the famous gentleman sleuth. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death.
It's to be made into a film this year starring Milla Jovovich and Anton Yelchin (the guy who plays Checkov in the new
Star Trek).
Even if you don't manage to finish the book, you're welcome to come along for the meetup. New members welcome.
