Wareham Free Library’s Mystery Book Club will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 16 to discuss A Drink Before the War by local author Dennis Lehane. 

The book, Lehane’s first, introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, private investigators from the blue-collar streets of Dorchester, according to Lehane’s website.

“In the book, a cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents,” reads the book’s summary. “As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It’s about justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn’t just a dirty business . . . it’s deadly.”

Meetings are at the library at 59 Marion Road at 6 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month.