WICE upcoming events

LY011 Murder, They Read: "The Blessing Way," by Tony Hillerman (01 May 2026)

Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT

While investigating a murder on the Navajo Reservation in the Southwestern US, Navajo Police Officer Joseph Leaphorn encounters what appear to be ritualistic elements linked to Navajo beliefs. Meanwhile, Leaphorn’s friend, anthropologist Bergen McKee, while visiting the Navajo Nation for his research on witches, becomes entangled in a particularly challenging series of events in the canyons. This novel, first in the Navajo Tribal Police series, blends elements of danger and adventure and a compelling mystery with depictions of Navajo culture, landscape, and spirituality

The Navajo Nation awarded Hillerman the title of Special Friend to the Diné, and his love of the people and the country they inhabit shines through in this book.

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, 04 April.

LU051 Murder, They Read: "Harlem Shuffle," by Colson Whitehead (05 Jun 2026)

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Harlem Shuffle,by 2 time Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur fellow Colson Whitehead, follows Ray Carney, a small businessman living in 1960s Harlem. Carney sees himself as an honest businessman trying to climb into the middle class, but due to the need to support his family and the difficulty of doing so, he sometimes steps over the line. When his ne’er do well cousin Freddie involves him in a plan for a robbery, Carney is pulled deeper into crime. As the years pass, he navigates corrupt police, gangsters, and shifting Harlem politics while trying to protect his business and family. Blending crime story and social portraiture, the novel explores ambition, survival, and the complicated line between respectability and criminality in a changing Harlem.

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, 02 May.