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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – June 2019
At the June 27th, 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 19 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 June 2019:
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (several readers)
- Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
- Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Trespasser by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Lost Man by Jane Harper – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Hunter by Julia Leigh
- Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Maltese Cross by Steve Berry
- Holy Ghost by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Murder on the Lusitania and Murder on the Mauretania by Conrad Allen
- Dead as a Door Knocker by Diane Kelly
- The Fifth Doctrine by Karen Robards
- The Last Second by Catherine Coulter
- Insidious Intent by Val McDermid – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Re-reading several of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz (both as audiobooks read by Rory Kinnear)
- The Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Partner by John Grisham
- The People vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid– past author selection for Just Desserts
- ??? by Charlaine Harris
- ??? by Johnathan Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in June 2019:
- The three One Book – One Lincoln finalists: There There by Tommy Orange, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, and The Faraway Brothers by Lauren Markham (multiple readers, including There There as an audiobook)
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
- What the Most Successful People Do by Laura Vanderkam
- Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
- The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
- The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller
- Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
- The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jennof
- Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
- The Light We Bury by ???
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Recommended Reading list from Just Desserts members on July 28th
Here is the list of reading recommendations from the July 28th 2016 Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group meeting. After discussing our book-of-the-month, the group did a round robin, asking members to say what they’d been reading lately that they’d recommend.
Here is the list of titles that were hot with this mystery-savvy batch of readers in July 2016:
MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE
- Bear Island by Nevada Barr — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Judgement Call and The Old Blue Line by J.A. Jance — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt
- The Highwayman by Craig Johnson (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Fifteenth Affair by James Patterson — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Slow Burn by Ace Atkins, based on the works of Robert B. Parker
- The Ranger and The Lost Ones in the Quinn Colson series by Ace Atkins
- Dying for a Taste by Leslie Karst
- Bless Her Dead Little Heart and Dead With the Wind by Miranda James
- Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline — a past Just Desserts selected author/title
- Private Vegas and The Midnight Club by James Patterson — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Stand Up Guy and other books in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Hanna Swenson series by Joanne Fluke — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Goldy Schulz series by Diane Mott Davidson (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Hiss and Hers by M.C. Beaton — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
- Murder in Palais Royal by Cara Black
- Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Maisie Dobbs by Victoria Winspear — a past Just Desserts selected author/title
- Extreme Prey by John Sandford (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Unquiet by John Connelly
- The 14th Colony by Steve Berry
- The works of M.J. Arlidge
- The Winner by David Baldacci — a past Just Desserts selected author
- X and others in the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton (serveral readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Paw and Order and others in the Chet and Bernie series by Spencer Quinn (several readers) — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Murder at the CIA by Margaret Truman — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Nero Wolfe TV series (on DVD) starring Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine by ???
- old Perry Mason reprints by Erle Stanley Gardner — a past Just Desserts selected author
- Knit to Be Tied by Maggie Sefton
- Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo — a past Just Desserts selected author
- The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (audiobook on CD) — a past Just Desserts selected author
NON-MYSTERIES
- Flight Pattern by Karen White
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel J. Brown
- The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
- Mindhunter by John E. Douglas
- The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma [a 2016 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande [the 2016 One Book – One Lincoln winner]
What mysteries have YOU been reading lately that you’d like to recommend?