In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance
intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels
begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the
middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more
puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a
mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts
stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has
disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
This week's book is The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.