What does a youth worker, a retired farmer, a teenage computer hacker and a septuagenarian Miss Marple wannabe have in common? In ”The Busybody Book Club,” by Freya Sampson, it is the St. Tredock Community Book Club.

Nova Davies, the youth worker, is an employee of the St. Tredock Community Center, and the book club was her idea. She is disappointed in the low turnout but determined to make the club a success. Septuagenarian Phyllis Hudson is our Agatha Christie fan and loves to involve herself in every crime she can, much to the displeasure of the constabulary. Arthur Robinson, a retired dairy farmer, was not much of a reader until he became his wife’s eyes. Now he is Nova’s most enthusiastic participant. Teenager Ash tends to keep quiet, but his sporadic observations make it clear h

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