Richland Library Main
Book Group: Keep Me in Suspense
Saturday, April 11, 2026 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Join us for a lively discussion of The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green.
Stop in at the Readers' Advisory service point on the First Level of Richland Library Main or phone Chantal Wilson or Janet Hatch at 929-3400 to request a copy of this month's book.
The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green is available in eBook and eAudiobook formats via Libby.
'“Around these parts, the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an event. … Green leans all the way into Southern Gothic, but the main grotesquerie is the city’s history, built on the backs of enslaved people. His prose is languid, even luxurious, but at critical moments of suspense, he pares it back to ramp up the terror.”
―New York Times Book Review
Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city’s history. But look deeper and you’ll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It’s the story at the heart of George Dawes Green’s chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah.
It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep’s, one of the town’s favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be “disappeared.” An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths―truths that will rock Savannah’s power structure to its core.
Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah’s elite, Green’s novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family.' ~From the publisher
Keep Me in Suspense Book Group meets the second Saturday of every month from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
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