January 2018 reading recommendations from Just Desserts members

Friday, 26 January 2018 12:39

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At the January 25^th, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (Michael Connelly’s The Late Show), we held our monthly round robin in which all 15 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in January 2018:

• The Right Side by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts
• City of the Lost and A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong
• The Messenger by Daniel Silva – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Less Than a Treason by Dana Stabenow – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Glass Houses by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Sleeping on the Ground by Peter Robinson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Fix by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Brooklyn on Fire by Lawrence H. Levy
• The Winter of Frankie the Machine and A Long Walk Up the Water Slide by Don Winslow (the Nov/Dec 2017 hiatus author assignment for Just Desserts)
• Cold Betrayal by J.A. Jance – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Killing Season by Faye Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The final sixth season of Longmire (based on the novels by Craig Johnson) on Netflix – the libraries have all 5 previous seasons on DVD – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Whispering Room and The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
• various recent titles by Stuart Woods
• Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
• Murder Has a Motive and Murder for Christmas credited to Francis Duncan (but actually written by William Underhill back in the 1940s)
• How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams by Dorothy Cannell
• The Terrorizers (a book in the Matt Helm series) by Donald Hamilton (libraries don’t have this one, but we do have others in the series in eBook format)
• Knife Creek by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
• various titles by William Kent Krueger – past author selection for Just Desserts
• various titles by Tess Gerritsen – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in January 2018:

• Hacks by Donna Brazile
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (for another book group)
• Truth is a Total Defense by Steven Bochco (autobiography)
• The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch

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