Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the January Just Desserts meeting last week, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans (via InterLibrary Loan)

• The Edge by Jeffery Deaver

• The Scumble River series by Denise Swanson

• Books by Stephen White

• Books by Harlan Coben

• Books by Gregory Iles

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (our February selection)

• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters

• Books by Peter Robinson

• Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell

• The Judas Strain by James Rollins

• Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs

• The Midsomer Murders series on DVD

• The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton

• The Debutante Dropout series by Susan McBride

• The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant

• The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato (not in library)

• The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White

• The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris

• What Happened at Midnight – The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs

• The Miss Zukas/Helma Zukas series by Jo Dereske

• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen

• I, Alex Cross by James Patterson

• The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben

• The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz

So, what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?