Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 2022

Monday, 31 October 2022 12:58

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

At the October 2022 Just Desserts meeting, 18 group members participated in our discussion of The Life and Works of P.D. James.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our regular monthly round robin in which 17 of 18 attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in October 2022:

• House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The It Girl by Ruth Ware (multiple readers) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Verity by Colleen Hoover
• The movie Still Life, adapted from the novel by Louise Penny (on Acorn TV) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger (multiple readers) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Round Up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
• The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
• The Hidden One by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Couple at No 9 by Claire Douglas
• With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
• All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett
• A Manuscript for Murder by Jon Land and Jessica Fletcher
• Apples Never Fall, What Alice Forgot and Truly, Madly, Guilty all by Liane Moriarty – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier
• Righteous Prey by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn
• The first 9 Hercule Poirot novels by Agatha Christie as audiobooks – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge (biography of a fictional character)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in October 2022:

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
• Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
• Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
• Stand Your Ground by Victoria Christopher Murray
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks

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