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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2016

At the February 25th, 2016 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 January 2016:

The works of Tana French – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
Are You Watching Me by Sinead Crowley
Blue by ???
Career Evil by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) [More than one group member was reading this]
After the Storm by Linda Castillo – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
Bury the Lead by David Rosenfeldt
The Devil Wins (a Jesse Stone novel continuing Robert B. Parker’s series) by Reed Farrell Coleman
The DVD series Midsomer Murders
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
The early volumes (A, B, C, D…) in the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
Various volumes in the Phryne Fisher novel series by Kerry Greenwood – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
In Like Flynn by Rhys Bowen
Degrees of Separation by Sue Henry
Various volumes in the Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
The Chocolate Falcon Fraud by JoAnna Carl
Some Like it Hawk by Donna Andrews
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
NYPD Red and NYPD Red 2 by John Patterson – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
Finder by Lisa Gardner – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Too Soon Dead – an Alexander Brass novel by Michael Kurland (not currently in the libraries)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

The Stand by Stephen King
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The Karla Trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy, Smiley’s People) by John Le Carre
John Le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
The Art of Racing in the Rain (on CD) by Garth Stein
The Reef by Nora Roberts
Leonard: My Fifty Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man by William Shatner

And here were some additional titles sent in by e-mail after the meeting concluded:

The Final Murder by Anne Holt
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (on CD) by Bill Nye

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

Reading Recommendations From Just Desserts Members – January 28 2016

At the January 28th, 2016 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 January 2016:

Career of Evil — Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
The Company She Kept — Archer Mayor
FaceOff — anthology edited by David Baldacci
The Lake House — Kate Morton
The Crossing, also an audiobook anthology of short stories — Michael Connelly (several readers reading this one)
The Promise — Robert Crais (several readings reading this one)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum — Kate Atkinson
Make Me — Lee Child
The Theory of Death — Faye Kellerman
A Christmas Carol Murder — Leslie Meier
Random Violence — Jassy MacKenzie
The Spirit of Steamboat — Craig Johnson
The Humbug Murders — L.J. Oliver
The Killing Trail — Margaret Mizushima
Hounded and New Tricks — both by David Rosenfelt
Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel — both by M.J. Arlidge
Dishing the Dirt — M.C. Beaton
Dry Bones — Craig Johnson
The Doc Ford series — Randy Wayne White
A Fatal Grace — Louise Penny
Call Me Princess — Sara Blaedel
Every Dead Thing — John Connelly
Wait for Signs — Craig Johnson
The Alpine Christmas — Mary Daheim
Tricky Twenty-Two — Janet Evanovich
Depraved Heart — Patricia Cornwell
House of the Rising Sun — James Lee Burke
The Sherlock Holmes Book — David Stuart Davies [823 DoyYd]
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories — edited by Otto Penzler [832 DoyYp]
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries — edited by Otto Penzler [813.08 Pen]

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II — Molly Guptill Manning
Changes — Jim Butcher
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
The Sky is Falling — Sidney Sheldon
A Guide Book to Learning — Mortimer Adler
The Short Job — Matthew Fitzsimmons

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 29, 2015

At the October 29th, 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 October 2015:

Sleuth (a play) — Anthony Shaffer
Deathtrap (a play) — Ira Levin
The Scam (in both print and audiobook formats)— Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg [past Just Desserts selected authors]
— by Dorling Kingersley Publishing
The ABC Murders — Agatha Christie [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Maigret and the Headless Corpse — George Simenon [a past Just Desserts selected author ]
My Cousin Rachel — Daphne DuMaurier
Dare to Die — Carolyn Hart [a past Just Desserts selected author ]
The Death of Lucy Kyle — Nicola Upson
The Convictions of John Dillahunt — Andrew Hughes
The Last 4 Days of Paddy Buckley — Jeremy Massey
The Nature of the Beast — Louise Penny (several members were reading this!) [a past Just Desserts selected author ]
Murder at the Paperback Parlor — Ellery Adams
Memory Man — David Baldacci [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Hearse You Came In On — Tim Cockey
The Keeper of Lost Causes — Jussi Adler-Olsen
The rest of the Kate Burkholder series — Linda Castillo [this month’s Just Desserts selected author]
The Lucy Stone series — Leslie Meier
In Dark Places — Peter Robinson [a past Just Desserts selected author ]
Long Upon the Land — Margaret Maron
Rogue Lawyer — John Grisham (several Just Desserts members reading this)
a whole bunch of Halloween-themed cozies — by various authors
The Cormoran Strike series — Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins
The Rule of Nine — Steve Martini [a past Just Desserts selected author ]
The Day Shift — Charlaine Harris
The Haunted Season — G.M. Malliet
Driving Heat — “Richard Castle” [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Blue Last — Martha Grimes

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

The Survivor — Vince Flynn
The Ghost Fleet — P.W. Singer
Station 11 — Emily St. John Mandel [a 2015 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China — Huan Hsu
The Pulp Fiction Screenplay — Quentin Tarantino
Finders Keepers and Thinner and Carrie — Stephen King
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Arthur and George — [on PBS]
In Cold Storage — James W. Hewitt

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – September 24, 2015

At the September 24th, 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:

The Company of Liars — Karen Maitland
Death Without Company (on CD) — Craig Johnson [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Ranger — Ace Atkins
The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes — Lawrence Block
Wicked Autumn — G.M. Malliet
Memory Man — David Baldacci [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Bloodline — Lynda LaPlante
Princess Elizabeth’s Spy — Susan Elia MacNeal
Remains of Innocence — J.A. Jance [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Repair to the Grave — Sarah Graves [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Invisible City — Julia Dahl
Guardian of Lies — Steve Martini
Strangers — Bill Pronzini
The Bughouse Affair and The Spook Lights Affair — Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini [past Just Desserts selected authors]
The Purification Ceremony and The Serpent’s Kiss — Mark Sullivan
The Man Who Fell From the Sky — Margaret Coel [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Scam — Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg [past Just Desserts selected authors]
Malice — Lisa Jackson
Safe at Last — Maya Banks
X — Sue Grafton [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Speaking in Bones — Kathy Reichs [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Reckoning — Carsten Stroud
Three Graves Full — Jamie Mason
Code of Conduct — Brad Thor
The Sound of Glass — Karen White
A Fatal Chapter — Lorna Barrett
Murder on the Horizon — M.L. Rowland
Sworn to Silence, Breaking Silence and Prey for Silence — Linda Castillo
The Murderer’s Daughter — Jonathan Kellerman [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Woof — Spencer Quinn (for teens) [a past Just Desserts selected author]
Driving Heat — “Richard Castle” [a past Just Desserts selected author]
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

Station 11 — Emily St. John Mandel [a 2015 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
The Taming of the Queen — Philippa Gregory
Carthage — Joyce Carol Oates
Wit’s End — Karen Joy Fowler
A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy O’Toole
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August — Claire North

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

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?

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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2016

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

Reading Recommendations From Just Desserts Members – January 28 2016

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in January 2016:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 29, 2015

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in October 2015:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – September 24, 2015

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2015:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 27th, 2015

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2015:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

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