Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 2011

Saturday, 30 July 2011 12:50

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
 
At the July Just Desserts meetings, after discussing our monthly “assigned” books, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries (or other works) they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot that month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The works of Kathy Reichs, including Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets and Monday Mourning
• The One Book – One Lincoln finalists, including Cutting for Stone, A History of Love and Zeitoun
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
• A couple of folks were reading Agatha Christie, including The Clocks and The Mystery of the Blue Train
• The latest from Sue Henry
• The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall-Smith
• The works of Archer Mayor
• The works of Lee Child
• Live From Cape Canaveral by Jay Barbree
• Vision Impossible by Victoria Laurie
• Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
• The Blue Virgin by M.K. Graff
• The Faithful Place by Tana French
• One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

What have you been reading lately that you’d like to recommend?