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

At the March 31st Just Desserts meeting, 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 Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• To Have and to Kill by Mary Jane Clark
• 14 by J.T. Ellison
• The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The 5^th Horseman by James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club series)
• City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
• Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
• Sail by James Patterson
• Dead Dry in the Em Hansen series by Sarah Andrews
• Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
• The Lee McKinney series by JoAnna Carl
• The Charlie Moon series by James Doss
• The works of Tony Hillerman
• The works of Patricia Cornwell
• The works of Erle Stanley Gardner
• A Little Gentle Sleuthing – the first in the Melissa Craig series by Betty Rowlands
• Cat Coming Home – one of the latest Joe Grey mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The works of Ray Kurzweil
• The DVD series Lark Rise to Candleford
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Works about John Wesley
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Room by Emily Donoghue
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
• The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
• Heartwood by Belva Plain
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

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