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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 2019
- Friday, 25 October 2019 17:33
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At the October 24th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (The “Philip Marlowe” novels by Raymond Chandler), we held our monthly round robin in which all 17 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 October 2019:
- Lost Souls, Rough Justice and Cruel Fate, the first three Rockton novels of Kelley Armstrong
- The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Death in Focus, first in a new series by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Sparkling Cyanide and Crooked House by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lupeña
- Bloody Genius by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Better Man by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Almost Midnight by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Memory Man, The Last Mile, The Fix, The Fallen by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz
- Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper
- Various volumes by C.M. Wendelboe
- Murder on the Orient Express (the original 1974 film) on DVD
- The various Hercule Poirot novels by authorized author Sophie Hannah
- The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills (continuing the Mitch Rapp series by the late Vince Flynn)
- Shadow of Power by Steve Martini – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan – past author selection for Just Desserts
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in October 2019:
- City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory
- Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Akin by Emma Donoghue
- How to Hold a Grudge by Sophie Hannah
- Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Taliana Schlossberg
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?