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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – March 2011

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

At the March 31st 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 novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• To Have and to Kill by Mary Jane Clark
• 14 by J.T. Ellison
• The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The 5^th Horseman by James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club series)
• City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
• Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
• Sail by James Patterson
• Dead Dry in the Em Hansen series by Sarah Andrews
• Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
• The Lee McKinney series by JoAnna Carl
• The Charlie Moon series by James Doss
• The works of Tony Hillerman
• The works of Patricia Cornwell
• The works of Erle Stanley Gardner
• A Little Gentle Sleuthing – the first in the Melissa Craig series by Betty Rowlands
• Cat Coming Home – one of the latest Joe Grey mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The works of Ray Kurzweil
• The DVD series Lark Rise to Candleford
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Works about John Wesley
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Room by Emily Donoghue
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
• The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
• Heartwood by Belva Plain
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2011

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

At the January Just Desserts meeting last week, 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 novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans (via InterLibrary Loan)
• The Edge by Jeffery Deaver
• The Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
• Books by Stephen White
• Books by Harlan Coben
• Books by Gregory Iles
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (our February selection)
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Books by Peter Robinson
• Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell
• The Judas Strain by James Rollins
• Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
• The Midsomer Murders series on DVD
• The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
• The Debutante Dropout series by Susan McBride
• The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant
• The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato (not in library)
• The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
• The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• What Happened at Midnight – The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs
• The Miss Zukas/Helma Zukas series by Jo Dereske
• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
• The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz

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

September 2010 Mystery Recommendations From Just Desserts Members

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

At the September Just Desserts meeting last week, 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 novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The Lisbeth Salander series by Stieg Larsson
• Pushing Up Bluebonnets by Leann Sweeney
• The Cat, the Professor and the Poison by Leann Sweeney
• The Death on Demand series by Carolyn G. Hart
• The Sister Agatha mystery series by Aimee Thurlo
• The Melanie Travis series by Laurian Berenson
• The Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout (a previous selection of Just Desserts)
• The Billy Boyle series by James R. Benn
• The Case of the Hook-Billed Kite by J.S. Borthwick
• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans
• A Dilly of a Death by Susan Wittig Albert
• Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connelly
• State Fair and others in the Benni Harper series by Earlene Fowler
• Last to Die by Kate Brady (author web site)
• The Serpent’s Tale by Arianna Franklin
• The Spellman Family series by Lisa Lutz
• The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
• Various volumes in The Hardy Boys series by Franklin Dixon
• The Lion by Nelson DeMille
• The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke (a previous selection of Just Desserts)
• Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
• Ghost at Work by Carolyn G. Hart

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