- Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:53
Here is the list of reading recommendations from the July 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 July:
MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE
- Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell (on CD)
- A Wanted Man by Lee Child (on CD) [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Good People by Ewart Hutton
- The Golden Egg by Donna Leon [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Creepers by David Morrell
- The Husband and four others by Dean Koontz
- Catch Me by Lisa Gardner [a forthcoming Just Desserts selected author]
- Death Angel by Linda Fairstein
- Niceville by Carsten Stroud
- Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo
- Live Wire by Harlan Coben [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- A Serpent’s Tooth by Craig Johnson [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Several books in the bibliophile mystery series by Kate Carlisle
- Six Years by Harlan Coben [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Bones are Forever by Kathy Reich [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- The 12th of Never by James Patterson
- Luther, seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
- Curtain by Agatha Christie
- The Cookbook Conspiracy by Kate Carlisle
- Redeemer by Jo Nesbo
- The Dan Shamble zombie mystery series by Kevin J. Anderson
- The Needlecraft mystery series by Monica Ferris
- The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke [our August Just Desserts selection!]
- The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- The Cat, the Mill and the Murder by Leann Sweeney
- Murder is a Fine Art by David Morrell
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Mystery Scene magazine — link goes to the official website for the magazine; the libraries do not subscribe to this magazine at this time
- Mayhem at the Orient Express by Kylie Logan
- Covert Affairs, seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
NON-MYSTERIES
- Trident K9 Warriors by Michael Ritland
- Dan Gets a Minivan by Dan Zevin
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich (including book-on-CD) [a 2013 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (including book- on-CD) [a 2013 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce [a 2013 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
- The Union Street Bakery by Mary Ellen Taylor
- (an unidentified book about the Ratcliffe Highway Murders in British history)
- The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore
What you been reading lately that you’d recommend?