Reading group guide for UNCOMMON GROUNDS... Did this novel teach you anything about coffee or running a coffee house? What clues do you remember that make this a "play fair" novel? How good a detective is Maggy? Maggy refers to her relationship with Sarah as the same as Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. What characteristics do they share? Do you prefer a first person narrator rather than a third person narration? What humor did you find in this novel? Do you think there is a future for Maggy and Pavlik? What sense of community do you get from the descriptions of Brookhills? After 9/11, how should society deal with movements like the one discovered in Brookhills? How bad a person is the killer? uncommon grounds | author | writing | balzo communications | home