April 2013 reading suggestions from Just Desserts members

Wednesday, 05 June 2013 17:45

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Here, a bit belatedly, is the list of reading recommendations from the April 2013 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 that month:

Mysteries

• A Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald
• The Camel Club novels by David Baldacci
• The Woods by Harlan Coben
• The Breathtaker by Alice Blanchard
• Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
• Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
• Breaking Point by C.J. Box
• Six Years by Harlan Coben
• The Forgotten by David Baldacci
• The Scumble River Series by Denise Swanson
• The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
• A Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
• Abandon Ship by ??? (on Kindle)
• Live Wire by Harlan Coben
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Swift Run by Laura DiSilverio
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
• Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
• Precinct Puerto Rico and others by Steven Torres
• The V.I. Warshawski novels of Sara Paretsky
• Red Velvet Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Black Box by Michael Connelly
• Guilt by Jonathan Kellerman
• The Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier

Non-Mysteries

• Home by Toni Morrson
• Traveling With Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd
• David Copperfield (on CD) by Charles Dickens
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
• The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
• You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriot Ann Jacobs (1861 public domain title)
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• Richard III (the play on CD) by William Shakespeare

So…what mystery have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?