- Thursday, 13 November 2014 09:21
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?