July 2010 mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 12:40

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

At the July Just Desserts meeting last week, 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. We had a record-breaking attendance for the July meeting, so here’s a longer-than-usual list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
• Sink Trap by Christy Evans
• The Ghost and the Dead Man’s Library by Alice Kimberly (a.k.a. Cleo Coyle)
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
• The Women’s Mystery Club series by James Patterson
• The Lion by Nelson DeMille
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
• Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen
• Heat Wave by Richard Castle
• In the Woods by Tana French
• The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
• Knit, Purl and Die by Anne Canadeo
• False Witness by Aimee Thurlo
• Sweet Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
• A Catered Wedding by Isis Crawford
• Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown
• Closet Confidential by Mary Jane Maffini
• Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
• Winter Study by Nevada Barr (part of the Anna Pigeon series, previously discussed by Just Desserts)
• Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
• Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson

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