Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in March 2021

Monday, 29 March 2021 12:00

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At the March 25^th, 2021 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group on Zoom, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (“Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz), we held our monthly Round Robin in which all 15 online attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently. We also received some submissions from Just Desserts members who weren’t able to attend the online meeting.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in March 2021:

• One by One by Ruth Ware – forthcoming author/title selection for Just Desserts
• The Lady’s Slipper by Deborah Swift
• The Widower’s Wife by Cate Holohan
• In the Garden of Spite by Camille Bruce
• The Kaiser’s Web by Steve Berry
• Various in the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt
• The new K Team series by David Rosenfelt
• A Fatal Lie by Charles Todd – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dark Sky by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The play “Spider’s Web” by Agatha Christie, filmed and available for streaming from Amazon Prime (libraries only have the novel adapted from the play)
• The Vanishing Girl by Josephine Ruby
• Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg (multiple readers)
• The Eighth Detective by Alex Parvesi
• Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom (graphic novel) by Kelly Thompson (writer) and Jenn St.-Onge (artist)
• Camino Winds by John Grisham
• The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
• The Poet by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Low Action (on audio) by Andrew Cartmel
• The Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
• Murder Ink by Betty Hechtman
• The Ancient Dead by Barbara Fradkin
• The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (multiple readers)
• Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
• The Drift by John Ridley (not recommended)
• Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
• Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Cleo Coyle
• The Singing of the Dead by Dana Stabenow (and an online video interview with the author) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Fear the Dark, Wait for Dark and Hold Back the Dark (all on audio) by Kay Hooper
• Win by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Searcher by Tana French – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
• The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian – forthcoming author/title selection for Just Desserts
• Cruel Winter by Sheila Connolly
• Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Lost Boys by Faye Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in March 2021:

• The Book of Lost Friends (on audio) by Lisa Wingate
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Monogamy by Sue Miller
• The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
• Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn

What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?