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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – June 2012

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

At the June 28^th 2012 Just Desserts meeting, 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 books that were hot this month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• Other works by Susan Wittig Albert (whose Nightshade was our book-of-the-month)
• Due or Die by Jen McKinley
• As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson
• Justice Ends at Home…and Other Stories by Rex Stout
• The Chocolate Castle Clue by JoAnna Carl
• The Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee
• Death Comes Silently by Carolyn Hart
• Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
• The works of Janet Evanovich, particularly the 8^th Plum book, on audio
• The works by Suzanne Arruda, who was our author-of-the-month in May
• The works of Linda Castillo
• Day of Atonement by Faye Kellerman
• Shear Murder and others by Nancy J. Cohen
• The Innocent and others by Harlan Coben
• The Last Jihad by Joel Rosenberg
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• The works of Val McDermid
• Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry
• Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
• The Drop by Michael Connelly
• A Killer Read by Erika Chase
• The Snowman and others by Jo Nesbo
• Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
• The Kingdom Keepers series by Ridley Pearson, volumes 1-3
• True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
• Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (the 2007 One Book One Lincoln selection)
• Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson
• The current three One Book One Lincoln nominees:
• The Submission by Amy Waldman
• The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
• Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard

Mystery-related news:

• Group member Vera shared the link to site she recommended about Scandinavian mystery/thriller fiction: scandinaviancrimefiction.wordpress.com, which she described as “a very comprehensive website created by Gustavus Adolphus College; excellent blog by librarian Barbara Fister with reviews of many Nordic crime fiction novels.”
• Group member Cathy shared the news that author Diana Norman, who also wrote a mystery series starting with Mistress of the Art of Death under the pseudonym Ariana Franklin, died last year (2011).

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – May 2012

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

At the May 31^st 2012 Just Desserts meeting, 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The 11^th Hour by James Patterson
• Books Can Be Deceiving by Jen McKinley
• Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
• The works of Agatha Christie
• The Murder She Wrote tie-in novels
• The Agony of Leaves by Laura Childs
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• The Lost Years by Carol Higgins Clark
• Claws and Effects by Rita Mae Brown
• Rottweiler Rescue by Ellen O’Connell
• The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol
• Stay Close by Harlan Coben
• True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
• Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
• Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline
• Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
• A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
• Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
• Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman
• The Torso by Helen Tursten
• Maigret Hesitates by George Simenon
• The works of Janet Evanovich, particularly the 4^th through 7^th Plum books
• The Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, particularly The Moor
• Ghost of a Chance by Helen Chappell
• City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• The Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker
• No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
• One False Move by Harlan Coben
• The Rope by Nevada Barr
• Force of Nature by C.J. Box
• As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
• Room by Emma Donoghue

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2012

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

At the February 2012 Just Desserts meeting, 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

Mysteries

• Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman (not in library collection)
• Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams (this 1st in series not in library collection, although others are)
• Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
• The Virginia Rich/Nancy Pickard culinary mysteries
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Jessica Fletcher mystery series
• The works of Anne Perry
• The works of Jacqueline Winspear
• The medieval mysteries of Ian Morson
• The works of Rhys Bowen
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• The St. Patrick’s Day Murders by Joanne Fluke
• The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
• Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
• The works of Walter Mosley
• Mice by Gordon Reece (not in library collection)
• Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
• Abuse of Power by Michael Savage
• Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster (not in library collection)
• Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston
• Backspin by Harlan Coben
• The works of Donna Leon
• The Confession by Charles Todd
• The Drop, and others by Michael Connelly

Non-Mysteries

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Biographies of Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne and JFK
• Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gail Tzemach Lemmon
• All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Biography of Natalie Wood
• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman

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