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J.D. Robb’s “Obsession in Death”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on September 29th, 2016, 25 of us enjoyed discussing Obsession in Death, a 2015 entry (#40) in the long-running Eve Dallas/In Death series by Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about Obsession in Death and the In Death series, in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts – this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.
What do you think of Obsession in Death and the Eve Dallas/In Death series by J.D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts)?
Sara Paretsky’s “Critical Mass”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on August 25th, 19 of us enjoyed discussing Critical Mass, a 2013 entry in Sara Paretsky’s long-running V.I. Warshawski series. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about Critical Mass and the Warshawski series, in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts – this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.
What do you think of Critical Mass and the V.I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky?
Recommended Reading list from Just Desserts members on July 28th
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?
Christopher Fowler’s “Peculiar Crimes Unit/Bryant & May” series
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on July 28th, 14 of us enjoyed discussing the 14 volumes in the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series, in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts – this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.
What do you think of the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler?
Weather cancels May Just Desserts meeting — but let’s still talk on-line!
Sadly, the weather conditions have forced us to cancel the May 2016 “Series Share” Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion club meeting. We’re pushing the meetings for the rest of the year back by one month, so we’ll still have a “Series Share”, just in June instead of May.
In the meantime, since we were unable to gather, let’s use this Just Desserts blog entry to have a Round Robin, like we usually do at the end of each meeting. If you’re willing, please respond with a comment to the following question: