Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – April 2016

Friday, 29 April 2016 14:51

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

At the April 28th Just Desserts meeting last night, 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 or authors that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

Mysteries

• The works of Lee Child [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The works of Sue Grafton (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Charlie Moon series by James Doss [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo
• The Doll’s House and others by M.J. Aldridge
• Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes
• Firewall by Henning Mankell
• The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
• Her Royal Spyness, In Dublin’s Fair City and Tell Me, Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen
• Hour Game by David Baldacci [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• A Comedy of Heirs and The Blood Ballad by Rett MacPherson
• Make Me by Lee Child (didn’t recommend) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Off the Trail by C.J. Box [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Firemaker by Peter May (highly recommended)
• Clawback by J.A. Jance [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Considerate Killer by Lene Kaaberbol
• The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Girl She Left Behind by Sarah Graves [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• The Wedding Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Sweet Pepper Hero by J.J. Cook
• Wet Grave by Barbara Hambly [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Dead Letters: An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned edited by Nina Allen [813.08 Dea]
• The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Switcheroo by Aaron Elkins (not curently in library)
• The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Treachery at Lancaster Gate by Anne Perry [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
• Retribution by Val McDermid
• The Lovers by John Connelly
• The FBI series of Catherine Coulter
• Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason

Non-Mysteries

• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown [797.123 Bro] (several people reading)
• The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Shanks to Shakers: Reflections of the Missouri State Penitentiary by Mark S. Schreiber (not in library)
• The Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela Toler [973.775 Tol]

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