Just Desserts reading recommendations from Oct 2014

Thursday, 13 November 2014 09:21

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the final Just Desserts meeting for 2014, on October 30th, 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

• Night of the White Buffalo by Margaret Coel
• Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs (several JD readers)
• Personal by Lee Child (several JD readers)
• Designated Daughters by Margaret Maron
• Wendigo Island by William Kent Krueger
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
• Harry Lipkin, Private Eye by Barry Fantoni
• The Silence of the Library by Miranda James
• Money Shot by Christa Faust
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Citadel by Karen Mosse
• Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman
• Her Last Whisper by Karen Robards
• Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne
• A Silent Man by Alex Berenson
• Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder
• The Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman
• Haunted by Kay Hooper
• The Book Stops Here by Kate Carlisle
• Private Down Under by James Patterson and Michael White
• Killer Physique by G.A. McKevett
• Proof Positive by Archer Mayor (reviewed for library’s Customer Reviews on BookGuide)
• The Outsmarting of Criminals by Steven Rigolosi
• The Dog Who Knew Too Much, A Fistful of Collars and The Sound and the Furry all by Spencer Quinn — all as audiobooks
• The Virgil Flowers series of John Sandford
• The Hamish Macbeth series of M.C. Beaton
• The Rebus series of Ian Rankin
• The works of Tony Hillerman
• The works of Craig Johnson
• The works of John LeCarre

NON-MYSTERIES

• Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Discover Zen by David Fontana
• Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
• Great Books of the Western World series
• Crossfire by Louis L’Amour
• Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly
• It Worked For Me by Colin Powell

So, what mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?