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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts group members – July 2019

At the July 25^th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (several of Donna Andrews’ “Meg Langslow” series), we held our monthly round robin in which all 15 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2019:

• Some Close Darkness by Charlie Donlea
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
• Heart of Barkness by Spencer Quinn
• Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathan King
• Backlash by Brad Thor
• Never Die Alone by Lisa Jackson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Tony & Susan by Austin Wright
• (A Book of Bones by John Connolly – coming this fall) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher
• The Hector Belascoara Shayne by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
• The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith
• Whatdunits and More Whatdunits edited by Mike Resnick
• The entire Fletch series by Gregory McDonald

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in July 2019:

• The three 2019 One Book – One Lincoln finalists: There There by Tommy Orange, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, and The Faraway Brothers by Lauren Markham
• Star Trek Discovery season one on DVD
• The Warders series by Mary Calmes
• Doing Justice by Preet Bharara (on CD)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
• The Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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