Books discussed at the January 2020 Just Desserts “Anthologies” meeting

Friday, 31 January 2020 10:58

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At the January 30^th, 2020 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, the assigned reading topic was “Mystery Anthologies and/or Short Story Collections”. Each participating group member was to have read ANY multi-author mystery anthology or single-author mystery short story collection, and everyone was given an opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions on whatever they had read.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense anthologies or short story collections discussed by Just Desserts members in January 2020:

• Murder on the Run (12 stories) by the Adams Round Table
• Manhattan Mayhem (17 stories all set in Manhattan) edited by Mary Higgins Clark
• Strange Highways (short story collection all by Dean Koontz)
• FaceOff (11 stories by pairs of authors, crossing over each of their best-known characters) edited by David Baldacci on behalf of the International Thriller Writers (two members of Just Desserts read this, one in the audiobook format)
• The Big Book of Female Detectives (approximately 80 stories) edited by Otto Penzler
• A Study in Sherlock (16 stories) – a Sherlock Holmes collection edited by Laurie King
• Matchup (11 stories by pairs of authors – one male/one female – crossing over each of their best-known characters) edited by Lee Child on behalf of the International Thriller Writers (three members of Just Desserts all read this one)
• Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives (17 stories strongly featuring animals as sleuths or sidekicks) edited by Carole Nelson Douglas