August 2013 Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:44

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Here is the list of reading recommendations from the August 2013 Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group meeting. After discussing our book-of-the-month, the group did a round robin, asking members to say what they’d been reading lately that they’d recommend.

Here is the list of titles that were hot with this mystery-savvy bunch of readers in August:

MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE

• Mystery Scene magazine — link goes to the official website for the magazine; the libraries do not subscribe to this magazine at this time
• Death Angel by Linda Fairstein
• The Beast by Faye Kellerman
• Stranded by Alex Kava
• Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker
• Murder in Thrall by Anne Cleeland
• Sherlock on DVD
• Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson
• Video Kill by Joanne Fluke
• A Wanted Man by Lee Child (on CD) [a past Just Desserts selected author]
• Brunetti’s Cookbook by Donna Leon and Roberto Pianaro
• The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais [a past Just Desserts selected author]
• The Toby Neal series as Kindle files (Broken Ferns, Black Jasmine, Blood Orchids)
• The Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
• The Racketeer by John Grisham
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
• The Highway by C.J. Box
• The Killing Floor by Lee Child
• Don’t Tell a Soul by David Rosenfelt
• Heart of Ice by P.J. Parrish
• Gluten for Punishment by Nancy Parra
• Joyland by Stephen King (gave up on this one)
• Mistress by John Patterson and David Ellis
• Kinsey & Me by Sue Grafton

NON-MYSTERIES

• Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce [the 2013 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
• Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole
• 17 cents and a Dream by Daniel Milstein
• Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
• The Soloist by Mark Salzman
• Hidden Order by Brad Thor
• Lunatic Café by Laurell K. HamiltonThe Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
• Little Bee by Chris Cleeve
• The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
• Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

What you been reading lately that you’d recommend?