Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts Members – June 2021

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 14:56

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

At the June 2021 Just Desserts meeting that took place online using Zoom meeting software, 10 members participated in a discussion of Michael Connelly’s “Fair Warning”. Following that discussion, we held our monthly round robin in which all 14 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

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

• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Win by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Unwilling by John Hart
• The Consequences of War by Jacqueline Winspear – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Deep Freeze by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
• Like Lions by Brian Panowitz
• Hard Cash Valley (on audio) by Brian Panowitz
• The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Several in the Inspector John Crow series by Roy Lewis (libraries have only a few and only as Hoopla downloadable audiobooks)
• The Silent Assassin by Laurie B. Andrews
• The Target by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Tailspin by Sandra Brown
• Various by Charles Finch
• Various by Alan Furst
• Forgotten by Jeffery Deaver – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dark Sky by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
• She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Finders by Jeffrey Burton
• The Lady Dunbridge series (including Ask Me No Questions, Tell Me No Lies, and A Resolution at Midnight) by Shelley Noble
• Murder in Galway by Carlene O’Connor
• “Heathcliff Lennox: France 1918” by Karen Baugh Menuhin – short story related to series previously read
• Several Walt Longmire volumes re-read as audiobooks by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in June 2020:

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The City of Thieves by David Benioff
• The Paris Library by Janet Skeslian Charles
• Layla by Colleen Hoover
• The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews
• Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrine
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• Outlawed by Anna North
• Sharpie: The Life Story of Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska’s Aviatrix by Diane Ruth Armour Bartels
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Several Golden Sower Award nominees
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

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