July 2013 reading recommendations from Just Desserts members

Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:53

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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?