- Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:44
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?