- Thursday, 11 September 2014 11:29
Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the July 31st 2014 Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend.
Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:
MYSTERIES
- Mystery Scene Magazine (not owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season One based on the books by Kerry Greenwood
- Mail Order Murder by Leslie Meier
- The Night Searchers by Marcia Muller
- NYPD Red by James Patterson
- Power Play by Catherine Coulter
- The Book Club at realsimple.com
- The Hangman – an Inspector Gamache novella by Louise Penny
- Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins
- City of Bones and A Darkness More Than Light both by Michael Connelly
- Longmire the TV series and the Walt Longmire novels by Craig Johnson
- Private Games by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
- A Catered Birthday Party by Isis Crawford
- Black Echo, Black Ice and The Concrete Blonde, all by Michael Connelly
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spie, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Call for the Dead, all by John LeCarre
- First Rule by Robert Crais
- A Bullet for Cinderella by John D. MacDonald (not in the Lincoln City Libraries)
- The Skin Collector by Jeffery Deaver
- Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
- Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
- That Old Flame of Mine by J.J. Cook
- The Farm by ???
- The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
- Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
- Any Other Name by Craig Johnson
- Unlucky 13 by James Patterson
- Cheap Shot a Spenser novel by Ace Atkins
- Penance by David Housewright
- Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner (not in Lincoln City Libraries)
- Death Among Strangers by Deidre Laiken
- No Rest for the Dead by multiple authors
- Missing Ink by Karen Olsen
- Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
- Murder Past Due by Miranda James
- Shoot Him If He Runs and others by Stuart Woods
NON-MYSTERIES
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
- The National Parks companion book to the documentary by Ken Burns
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart
- Zodiac Unmasked by Robert Graysmith
- Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
- A Long Time Gone by Karen White
- The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
So, what mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?