LM061 Murder, They Read: "The Book of Wizzy," by Ann Chamberlin

  • 06 Mar 2026
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Impact Café, lower level (salle 3), 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003
  • 11

Registration

  • New book group members
  • Cheryl Purvis

The Book of Wizzy is set in the world within a world of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) community in the ski resort of Park City, Utah. The author provides us an insider view on that world and its accompanying perspective.

Eighteen-year-old Brittany Bingham is working as a housekeeper for posh condominiums in Park City when she discovers a body in a hot tub. Since Brittany’s parents are serving an LDS mission in Southern California, she calls on her aunt Helen for aid, but Helen’s feeling stretched thin. She’s still mourning the death of her child, Elizabeth,15 years ago. Wizzy, as Helen called her, died at the age of 3, and Helen feels that she and Wizzy are in daily communication through song. Additionally, she’s been asked by her bishop to take on a major responsibility. Everyone else is ready to dismiss the skier’s death as an accident, but Helen feels a responsibility to Brittany. What to do? Helen’s response to this dilemma, as she proceeds to solve the mystery and to increasingly develop and exercise her own power and autonomy w/in the structure of her church and beliefs, forms the backbone of the story.

NOTE: the author will join us for this discussion.

Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered seven days before the event, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

Registration opens on Saturday, 07 February.


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