Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the February 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, that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:
Mysteries
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Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman (not in library collection)
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Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams (this 1st in series not in library collection, although others are)
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Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington
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Still Life by Louise Penny
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Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
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The Virginia Rich/Nancy Pickard culinary mysteries
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
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Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
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The works of Anne Perry
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The works of Jacqueline Winspear
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The medieval mysteries of Ian Morson
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The works of Rhys Bowen
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Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
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The St. Patrick’s Day Murders by Joanne Fluke
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The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
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Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
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The works of Walter Mosley
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Mice by Gordon Reece (not in library collection)
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Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
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Abuse of Power by Michael Savage
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Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster (not in library collection)
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Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston
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Backspin by Harlan Coben
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The works of Donna Leon
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The Confession by Charles Todd
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The Drop, and others by Michael Connelly
Non-Mysteries
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Little Bee by Chris Cleave
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Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
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Biographies of Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne and JFK
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Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gail Tzemach Lemmon
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All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader by Yona Zeldis McDonough
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Biography of Natalie Wood
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Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
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Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
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That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman
So…what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?