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

At the January 2012 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, (especially over the November/December "hiatus" that the group takes), that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• A House to Die For by Vicki Doudera
• Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree by Nancy Atherton
• The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
• The Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
• 10^th Anniversary by James Patterson
• The Do-it-Yourself series by Jennie Bentley
• The Yellow Rose series by Leann Sweeney
• The Cats in Trouble series by Leann Sweeney
• Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride
• The Cat Sitter’s Pajamas by Blaize Clement
• As the Pig Turns, an Agatha Raisin novel by M.C. Beaton
• Maigret Goes Home by George Simenon
• The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg
• Tag Man by Archer Mayor
• The Drop by Michael Connelly
• Northwest Angle by William Kent Kreuger
• Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
• Foul Play at Four by Ann Purser
• Books by Louise Penny
• Seven Sisters by Earlene Fowler
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues: A Jesse Stone novel by Michael Brandman
• Books by George Simenon
• A Brutal Telling by Louis Penny
• Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
• Breakdown, a V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretsky
• The Death on Demand series by Carolyn G. Hart
• Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
• Countdown by Iris Johansen
• The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall
• The Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
• I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• The Stieg Larsson trilogy on audio
• The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
• The Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
• Books by Henning Mankell
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo on audio
• Books by Donna Leon
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

NON-MYSTERIES

• Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost
• Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Jaynes Omolulu
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
• The Wedding Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• This Time Together by Carol Burnett
• Pearl in China by Anchi Min
• Flower Net by Lisa See
• Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

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