Posts tagged as Just Desserts

When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on April 25, 2013, 16 of us discussed the multi-award-winning 2007 novel In the Woods by Tana French.

Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are  welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery  fans, don't forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you're logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts - this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.

What do you think of In the Woods by Tana French, set in Ireland?

Join us next on May 30th at the South Branch Library for a special discussion -- all participants are encouraged to read a volume in a NEW "cozy" or "amateur detective" series (that launched from 2011 to 2013), and share their impressions with the rest of the group!

Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the March 28th, 2013 Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly "assigned" author, 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• The works of Spencer Quinn
• Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
• The Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Shadow Creek by Joy Fielding
• Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner
• Six Years and others by Harlan Coben
• Beastly Things by Donna Leon
• Exit Music by Ian Rankin
• The Front by Patricia Cornwell
• Cold Wind by C.J. Box
• A Time for War by Michael Savage
• Killer Librarian by Mary Lou Kirwin
• Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
• The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
• The Black Box by Michael Connelly
• The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart
• A Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
• The works of Janet Evanovich
• Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich (on CD)
• Suspect by Robert Crais
• Bad Blood by Dana Stabenow
• Murder, My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
• Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
• State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
• The Christie Curse by Victoria Abbott
• The works of Harlan Coben
• The works of Patricia Cornwell
• The works of Stuart Woods
• The Brothers Karamatzov by Theodor Dostoevsky

NON-MYSTERIES

• The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
• A Weekend in Winter by Maeve Binchy
• Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
• An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Dark Half by Stephen King
• Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
• Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
• My Ideal Bookshelf by Jane Mount

What mysteries have you been reading, listening to, or watching lately?

When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on March 28, 2013, we discussed the entire Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson, starting with Gallow's View.

Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are  welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this series in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery  fans, don't forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you're logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts - this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.

What do you think of Gallow's View and the entire Inspector Banks series by Robinson, set in the Yorkshire area of Northern England?

Join us on April 25th at the South Branch Library for a discussion of In the Woods by Tana French!

When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met in February, we discussed David Baldacci's novel, The Camel Club.

This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on February 28, 2013. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book (and series) in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, don't forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you're logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.

What do you think of The Camel Club by Baldacci?

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

At the January 31^st, 2013 Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly “assigned” author, 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart
• Firefly Beach by Meira Pentermann
• Tell No Lies by Julie Compton
• Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
• A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava
• Mad River by John Sandford (several readers)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (several readers)
• Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald (for the Nov/Dec Just Desserts reading challenge
• Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Agony of Leaves by Laura Childs
• Multiple works in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon (this month’s assigned author)
• A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
• Books in the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• Buzzard’s Table by Margaret Maron (several readers)
• Books in the Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
• Books in the Mystery Shopper series by Elaine Viets
• Books by David Baldacci
• The Old Grey Wolf, the final Charlie Moon mystery by James Doss (who has died)
• The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olson
• Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
• Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
• Three books by James Lee Burke
• A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
• The Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
• A Time to Kill by John Grisham
• In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
• Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
• The Dark Winter by David Mack
• A Novel Way to Die and Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon
• Broken Harbor by Tana French
• Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
• City of Whispers by Marcia Muller
• The Complaints by Ian Rankin
• Hotwire by Alex Kava
• Two in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger
• The Fourth Bear, second in the Nursery Crimes series by Jasper Fforde
• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
• The Con Job, a Leverage tie-in novel, by Matt Forbeck

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