Books and Brews

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Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults, Seniors
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will close on January 14, 2026 @ 7:00pm.
  • This event is for registrants age 21+ and above.

Program Description

Event Details

Join the Santa Clarita Public Library for their exciting Books and Brews program as they discuss Mick Herron's book, "The Secret Hours". 

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so.   But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain. Until the eve of Monochrome’s shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin—an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history. 

This event is for adults over the age of 21 and ID's will be checked upon arrival.

Please do not drink and drive.

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