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Tag Archives: book group
Steve Martini’s “The Enemy Inside”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on September 24th, 2015, 13 of us enjoyed discussing The Enemy Inside, the latest volume in the Paul Madriani legal/political thriller series by Steve Martini. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about these novels 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 Paul Madriani legal/political thriller series by Steve Martini?
Join us for our next meeting on October 29th, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the South Branch Library — our final meeting of 2015! We’ll be discussing The Dead Will Tell, a recent volume in the “Kate Burkholder” Amish country police procedural series, by Linda Castillo.
We hope to see you then!
Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 27th, 2015
At the August 27th, 2015 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 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 August 2015:
- Volumes in the Benjamin January series by Barbara Hambly [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Three volumes by C.J. Box [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Memory Man — David Baldacci [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Nemesis — Catherine Coulter
- Blessed Are Those Who Thirst — Anne Holt
- Plum Island — Nelson DeMille
- By Hook or By Crook and A Stitch in Crime — Betty Heckman
- Silent Creed — Alex Kava
- After the Storm — Linda Castillo [an upcoming Just Desserts selected author]
- Bittersweet — Laura Wittig Albert [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Brutality — Ingrid Thoft
- Cash Landing — James Grippando
- I, Ripper — Stephen Hunter
- The Ripper — Isabel Allende
- Sudden Death — David Rosenfelt
- Wait for Signs — Craig Johnson [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- The Melody Lingers On — Mary Higgins Clarke and Alafair Burke [a past pair of Just Desserts selected authors]
- A Tiger’s Tale — Laura Morrigan
- The Enemy Within — Steve Martini [next month’s Just Desserts selected title]
- Dry Bones — Craig Johnson [a past Just Desserts selected author]
- Death and the Small Hours — Charles Finch
- The Art Whisperer — Charlotte Elkins
- The Skin Collector — Jeffrey Deaver [a past Just Desserts selected title]
- Various works by Mary Kan Andrews
- Various works by Randy Wayne White [a past Just Desserts selected author]
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:
- Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [2015 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
- Pro Bono — Jeff McArthur
- The Road to Character (on CD) — David Brooks
- The Joseph Stilwell papers from WWII
- Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals — Richard Pirsig
- The Truth According to Us — Annie Barrows
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Muller and Pronzini’s “Carpenter and Quincannon” series
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on August 27th, 2015, 19 of us enjoyed discussing the first 3 volumes in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about these novels 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 Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini?
Join us for our next meeting on August 27th, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the South Branch Library. We’ll be discussing The Enemy Within, the latest volume in the “Paul Madriani” legal thriller series, by Steve Martini.
We hope to see you then!
Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 30 2015
At the July 30th, 2015 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 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 June 2015:
- Missing Reels — Farren Smith Nehme
- Woof — Spencer Quinn [see dog mystery series for youth]
- The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook — edited by Kate White
- Personal (on CD) — Lee Child
- The Bughouse Affair — Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
- Wicked Charms — Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton
- Fatal Fortune — Victoria Laurie
- Aunt Dimity and the Summer King — Nancy Atherton
- A June of Ordinary Murders — Conor Brady
- Graveyard Dust — Barbara Hambly
- Tail Gate — Rita Mae Brown
- Crazy Love You — Lisa Unger
- Gathering Prey — John Sandford
- Endangered — C.J. Box
- Dry Bones — Craig Johnson
- Never Die Alone — Lisa Jackson
- 14th Deadly Sin — James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
- Grave on Grand Avenue — Naomi Hirahara
- The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins
- The English Spy — Daniel Silva
- Maisie Dobs — Jacqueline Winspear
- Don’t Go Home — Carolyn Hart
- Trapped — Irene Hannon
- Don’t Talk to Strangers — Amanda Kyle Williams
- Getting Old Can Kill You — Rita Lakin
- The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken — Tarquin Hall
- The works of Randy Wayne White
- The works of Susan Wittig Albert
- The works of Carol Higgins Clark
- Mr. Monk and the Firehouse — Lee Goldberg
- A Fatal Glass of Beer — Stuart Kaminsky
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in June 2015:
- The Ordinary Spaceman — Clayton Anderson
- Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson [2015 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [2015 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
- Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel [2015 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story — Barbara Leaming
- The Goldfinch (on CD) — Donna Tartt
- The Devil in the White City — Eric Larson [2006 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
- Go Set a Watchman — Harper Lee
- People of the Book — Geraldine Brooks [2009 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
- Miracle on the 17th Green — James Patterson and Peter De Jonge
- Miracle at Augusta — James Patterson and Peter De Jonge
- A Little Big Life — Dean Koontz
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes — Caitlin Doughty
- A New Hope — Robyn Carr
- Shot in the Back — William Johnstone
- Thomas Cromwell — Tracy Borman
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig
- Truck — John Jerome [through InterLibrary Loan]
- Blankets — Craig Thompson [graphic novel]
- Driving the King — Ravi Howard
- The Pilot’s Wife — Anita Shreve
- By Myself — Lauren Bacall
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Jonathan Kellerman’s “Victims”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on July 30th, 2015, 18 of us enjoyed discussing Victims, the 27th book in the popular Alex Delaware series of mystery thrillers by Jonathan Kellerman. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about Victims novels 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 Victims, by Jonathan Kellerman, or the Alex Delaware series in general?
Join us for our next meeting on August 27th, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the South Branch Library. We’ll be discussing the first 3 volumes in the relatively new “Carpenter & Quincannon” series, jointly written by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
We hope to see you then!