The Sacramento Bee Book Club has been around the literary block and back. Since 1997, its agenda has been to bring A-list authors to Sacramento and invite the public to attend their presentations and book signings. Terry Shames Catriona McPherson Cara Black of San Francisco, shown here in 2008, now has 14 titles in her “Aimee Leduc” series, set in Paris. Rhys Bowen