September 2014 Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts Members

Monday, 29 September 2014 10:38

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

At the Just Desserts meeting on September 25th, 2014, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart (on CD)
• Political Suicide by Michael Palmer
• True Blue by David Baldacci
• Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman (more than one reader)
• The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny (more than one reader)
• Hunted by Key Hooper
• Ripper Street on DVD
• The Ninth Day by Jamie Freveletti
• Killing Raven by Margaret Coel
• The Altman Code by “Robert Ludlum” and Gayle Lynds
• Eyes on You by Kate White
• The Poet by Michael Connelly
• Tell Me No Lies by Greg Hurwitz
• Terminal City by Linda Fairstein
• The Keeper by John Lescroart
• Death of a Neighborhood Witch by Laura Levine
• The 500 by Matthew Quirk
• Murder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams
• Classified as Murder by Miranda James
• The Murdoch Mysteries on DVD
• Murder as a Second Language by Joan Hess
• The Dog Who Knew Too Much and
• A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn (both on CD)
• The Dark Lady: Sherlock, Lupin and Me by “Irene Adler” (j)

NON-MYSTERIES

• Silver Star by Janet Wells
• The Fall of Giants (more than one reader),
• Winter of the World and
• The Edge of Eternity all by Ken Follett
• Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
• A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (this year’s One Book – One Lincoln winner)
• The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
• A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri

So, what mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?