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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – September 2017
At the September 28th, 2017 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 all 14 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 September 2017:
- Still Life by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Fix by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
- The Memory Man by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson – past author selection for Just Desserts (multiple readers)
- The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
- See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
- Capitol Threat by William Bernhardt
- Tipping the Valet by K.K. Beck
- Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Childs – past author selection for Just Desserts
- 3 books in the Mrs. Jeffries series by Emily Brightwell
- The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Burn Marks and Guardian Angel by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Down the Dark Road by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Fatal by John Lescroart
- Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Late Show by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts – also the January 2018 assigned discussion title for Just Desserts
- Fidelity by Jan Fedarcyk
- Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
- Yarned and Dangerous by Sadie Hartwell
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (latest volume about to come out)
- The Castle TV series on DVD
- The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart (on CD) – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The various TV-movie mystery series on Hallmark Mysteries & Movies cable TV channel, including the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, the Garage Sale mysteries, and the Hannah Swensen mysteries
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in September 2017:
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Sum It Up by Pat Summit
- O Pioneers (on audio) by Willa Cather [past One Book – One Nebraska selection]
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita
- Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene [past One Book – One Nebraska selection]
What mysteries have you been reading (or listening to, or watching) lately that you’d recommend?
Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 2017
At the August 31st, 2017 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 all 16 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 2017:
- All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
- Still Life by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel
- The Right Side by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
- Deadfall by Linda Fairstein – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (general fiction with a mystery element) [several readers]
- A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Glass Houses by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
- Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Great Reckoning and Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Whistler by John Grisham
- The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess – past author selections for Just Desserts
- Two Nights by Kathy Reichs – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Father Brown Mysteries on Netflix (available on DVD from the libraries)
- Castle TV series on DVD
- The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook edited by Kate White [641.5 Mys]
- Celine by Peter Heller
- The Samaritan by Mason Cross
- The Confessor by Daniel Silva – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Garage Sale Mysteries series on Hallmark Mysteries & Movies channel (a few of which are on DVD at the libraries)
- What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart (on CD) – past author selection for Just Desserts
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in August 2017:
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
- The Kid and The Commitment by Dan Savage
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (many readers)
- The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
- The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- The Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Star Trek’s Best Episodes
- Cathy attended a discussion panel event in Omaha (link no longer active) featuring a variety of Historical Fiction authors from the Omaha area – including at least one mystery author
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?