April 2014 Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members

Tuesday, 06 May 2014 11:53

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the April 2014 Just Desserts meeting on 4/24, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend.

Here’s a list of the books that were hot in April 2014 with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
• The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
• The Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson
• Several short stories by Craig Johnson available online
• Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
• Flower Net by Lisa See
• Books, Cooks and Crooks by Lucy Arlington
• Zero Degree Murder by M.L. Rowland
• Missing You by Harlan Coben
• Death Angel by Linda Fairstein
• The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone
• various audiobooks by Lillian Jackson Braun
• various audiobooks by Dick Francis
• various audiobooks by C.J. Box
• The October List by Jeffery Deaver [very frustrating for this reader!]
• Murder She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed by Donald Bain and Jessica Fletcher
• Miss Julia’s Marvelous Makeover by Anne Ross
• Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron
• Trespasser by Paul Doiron
• Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron
• Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron
• The Raven’s Eye by Barry Maitland
• The Blue Edge by Jonathan King
• Country of Origin by Don Lee
• The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
• North of Havana by Randy Wayne White
• A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
• The Blessing Way on CD by Tony Hillerman
• The works of Sharyn McCrumb
• Back Story by Robert B. Parker
• Sycamore Row by John Grisham
• Thereby Hangs a Tail on CD by Spencer Quinn
• Storm Season (a graphic novel) by Richard Castle

NON-MYSTERIES

• Pro-Bono: The 18-Year Defense of Caril Ann Fugate by Jeff McArthur
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
• Traitor’s Wife by Alison Pataki
• Heart of the Storm by Edward Fleming
• Ungifted by Gordon Korman
• The Homecoming by Carsten Stroud
• The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (on CD)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fate of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy

So, what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?