Recommended Reading list from Just Desserts members on July 28th

Sunday, 07 August 2016 17:36

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Here is the list of reading recommendations from the July 28th 2016 Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group meeting. After discussing our book-of-the-month, the group did a round robin, asking members to say what they’d been reading lately that they’d recommend.

Here is the list of titles that were hot with this mystery-savvy batch of readers in July 2016:

MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE

• Bear Island by Nevada Barr — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Judgement Call and The Old Blue Line by J.A. Jance — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt
• The Highwayman by Craig Johnson (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Fifteenth Affair by James Patterson — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Slow Burn by Ace Atkins, based on the works of Robert B. Parker
• The Ranger and The Lost Ones in the Quinn Colson series by Ace Atkins
• Dying for a Taste by Leslie Karst
• Bless Her Dead Little Heart and Dead With the Wind by Miranda James
• Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline — a past Just Desserts selected author/title
• Private Vegas and The Midnight Club by James Patterson — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Stand Up Guy and other books in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Hanna Swenson series by Joanne Fluke — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Goldy Schulz series by Diane Mott Davidson (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Hiss and Hers by M.C. Beaton — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
• Murder in Palais Royal by Cara Black
• Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Maisie Dobbs by Victoria Winspear — a past Just Desserts selected author/title
• Extreme Prey by John Sandford (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Unquiet by John Connelly
• The 14th Colony by Steve Berry
• The works of M.J. Arlidge
• The Winner by David Baldacci — a past Just Desserts selected author
• X and others in the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton (serveral readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Paw and Order and others in the Chet and Bernie series by Spencer Quinn (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Murder at the CIA by Margaret Truman — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Nero Wolfe TV series (on DVD) starring Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton
• I Heard It Through the Grapevine by ???
• old Perry Mason reprints by Erle Stanley Gardner — a past Just Desserts selected author
• Knit to Be Tied by Maggie Sefton
• Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo — a past Just Desserts selected author
• The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (audiobook on CD) — a past Just Desserts selected author

NON-MYSTERIES

• Flight Pattern by Karen White
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel J. Brown
• The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
• Mindhunter by John E. Douglas
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma [a 2016 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande [the 2016 One Book – One Lincoln winner]

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