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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 2017

At the July 27th, 2017 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned book of the month, we had a round robin in which all 18 attendees were able to share recommendations of other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2017:

• White Colander Crime by Victoria Hamilton
• The Drowning Man by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Midnight Come (a trilogy) by Michael David Anthony (not in libraries’ collection)
• Execution Dock by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and others in the Mary Russell series by Laurie King – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Child by Fiona Barton
• All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
• The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
• Embrace the Grim Reaper by Judy Clemens
• Knife Creek by Paul Doiron – an upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
• The Dalziel and Pascoe series on DVD
• Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
• The Shetland TV series, based on the books by Ann Cleeves
• The Fix by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts (several reading this!)
• Earthly Remains by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Walking On My Grave by Carolyn Hart – past author selection for Just Desserts (more than one reader this month) [Carolyn Hart announced in April 2017 that this would be her final Death on Demand series novel, the 26th in the series.]
• And Then There Were None (on DVD) by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The English Assassin and The Confessor by Daniel Silva – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Cross the Line by James Patterson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard S. Goldberg
• The Run Out Groove by Andrew Cartmel
• The Right Side by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Dessert

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in July 2017:

• The Royal Nanny by Karen Harper
• Jennie really loves the Author Alerts feature available to customers via our online catalog!! Visit the page and enter your e-mail or cellphone # and identify your favorite authors, and you’ll be notified anytime the Lincoln City Libraries add new titles or new editions of any of that author’s works to our collection!
• Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca – Rayma was fascinated by the story of Mrs. Grace Humiston but was ultimately disappointed in the writing of the actual book
• The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (many readers, including on audio)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (many readers, including on audio)
• Moonglow by Michael Chabon [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (many readers, including on audio)
• The Unseen World by Liz Moore (general fiction with mystery elements)
• The Republic of Plato
• The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter by John Pipkin
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

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