June 2013 reading recommendations from the Just Desserts mystery book group

Friday, 19 July 2013 17:50

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Here is the list of reading recommendations from the June 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 last month:

MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE

    Inferno by Dan Brown (several of the group)
    Shadows on the Coast of Maine by Lea Wait
    The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen – our author-of-the-month for The Keepsake
    A Monstrous Regiment of Women and others by Laurie King
    Murder Buys a T-Shirt by Christiy Fyfield
    Angels & Demons and The Lost Symbol, both by Dan Brown, both as audiobooks
    The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
    Wonderland by Ace Atkins
    The 12th of Never by James Patterson
    The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart
    The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell
    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel
    various works by Brad Thor, C.J. Box, and Gayle Lynds (one of Robert Ludlum’s successors)
    Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince by Nancy Atherton
    The Reveral by Michael Connelly
    The Husband by Dean Koontz
    the tv series Perception on TNT
    The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen on audiobook
    The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
    Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
    The works of Keith McCafferty
    The works of Sandra Brown
    Scat by Carl Hiaasen
    The Forgetten Man by Robert Crais
    Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief by Dorothy Gilman
    Echo Burning and Worth Dying For by Lee Child
    Jane and the Canterbury Tale by Stephanie Barron
    Power Play by Ridley Pearson

NON-MYSTERIES

    The Yanohlosee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton Disclafani
    The Garden of Evenings Mist by Twan Eng Tan
    The Round House by Louise Erdrich
    The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Sandler
    Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
    O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
    A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

What you been reading lately that you’d recommend?