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

At the September 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 Lisbeth Salander series by Stieg Larsson
• Pushing Up Bluebonnets by Leann Sweeney
• The Cat, the Professor and the Poison by Leann Sweeney
• The Death on Demand series by Carolyn G. Hart
• The Sister Agatha mystery series by Aimee Thurlo
• The Melanie Travis series by Laurian Berenson
• The Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout (a previous selection of Just Desserts)
• The Billy Boyle series by James R. Benn
• The Case of the Hook-Billed Kite by J.S. Borthwick
• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans
• A Dilly of a Death by Susan Wittig Albert
• Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connelly
• State Fair and others in the Benni Harper series by Earlene Fowler
• Last to Die by Kate Brady (author web site)
• The Serpent's Tale by Arianna Franklin
• The Spellman Family series by Lisa Lutz
• The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
• Various volumes in The Hardy Boys series by Franklin Dixon
• The Lion by Nelson DeMille
• The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke (a previous selection of Just Desserts)
• Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
• Ghost at Work by Carolyn G. Hart

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