Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – May 2012

Wednesday, 06 June 2012 17:25

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the May 31^st 2012 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The 11^th Hour by James Patterson
• Books Can Be Deceiving by Jen McKinley
• Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
• The works of Agatha Christie
• The Murder She Wrote tie-in novels
• The Agony of Leaves by Laura Childs
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• The Lost Years by Carol Higgins Clark
• Claws and Effects by Rita Mae Brown
• Rottweiler Rescue by Ellen O’Connell
• The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol
• Stay Close by Harlan Coben
• True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
• Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
• Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline
• Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
• A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
• Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
• Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman
• The Torso by Helen Tursten
• Maigret Hesitates by George Simenon
• The works of Janet Evanovich, particularly the 4^th through 7^th Plum books
• The Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, particularly The Moor
• Ghost of a Chance by Helen Chappell
• City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• The Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker
• No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
• One False Move by Harlan Coben
• The Rope by Nevada Barr
• Force of Nature by C.J. Box
• As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
• Room by Emma Donoghue

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