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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – April 2023

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

At the April 2023 Just Desserts meeting, 18 group members and guests participated in our discussion of the 2023 One Book One Nebraska selection, The Mystery of Hunting’s End by Mignon Good Eberhart.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. We continued a new policy this month that began in February, to make sure everyone got a turn in the Round Robin – everyone could share a single title during their verbal recommendations, but could share additional titles on a paper form – ALL titles recommended are shared below, but those that were specifically talked about in the Round Robin have an * next to them.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in April 2023:

• finishing the Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• finishing the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Fourth Enemy by Anne Perry * (not really a recommendation – not one of her best) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh (based on Dorothy Sayers’ characters)
• Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Small Game by Blair Braverman
• Murder at Black Oaks by Phillip Margolin – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Zero Night by Brian Freeman
• All the Dark Places by Teri Parlato
• A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Back to the Garden by Laurie King * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett *
• The Murder Book by Thomas Perry *
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• The Peter Fallon adventure series by William Martin
• The Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Zero Day by David Baldacci * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Quilt City Murders by Bruce Leonard * (not in libraries’ collection)
• Collateral Damage by J.A. Jance * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dead End Detective by Amanda Flower
• Edge of Dusk by Colleen Coble
• The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
• Rosemary Remembered by Susan Wittig Albert * – past author selection for Just Desserts
• White Shell Woman by James Doss – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dark Objects by Simon Toyne
• End of Days by Brad Taylor
• The Zero Night by Brian Freeman
• Wolf Trap by Connor Sullivan
• More Than Meets the Eye by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
• Exiles by Jane Harper – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Desert Star by Michael Connelly (as an audiobook-on-cd) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Huntsman by Morgan Brice (as a Hoopla audiobook)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in April 2023:

• Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles *
• The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas *
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather *
• Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Her Last Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
• Haven by Emma Donoghue
• Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff
• The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
• The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict
• Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus *
• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Prove Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld (two readers)
• Varina by Charles Frazier *
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
• Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks by Dick Cavett * (as an audiobook-on-cd)

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