Just Desserts recommended reading list for January 2013

Tuesday, 05 February 2013 17:10

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

At the January 31^st, 2013 Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly “assigned” author, 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 last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart
• Firefly Beach by Meira Pentermann
• Tell No Lies by Julie Compton
• Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
• A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava
• Mad River by John Sandford (several readers)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (several readers)
• Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald (for the Nov/Dec Just Desserts reading challenge
• Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Agony of Leaves by Laura Childs
• Multiple works in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon (this month’s assigned author)
• A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
• Books in the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• Buzzard’s Table by Margaret Maron (several readers)
• Books in the Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
• Books in the Mystery Shopper series by Elaine Viets
• Books by David Baldacci
• The Old Grey Wolf, the final Charlie Moon mystery by James Doss (who has died)
• The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olson
• Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
• Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
• Three books by James Lee Burke
• A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
• The Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
• A Time to Kill by John Grisham
• In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
• Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
• The Dark Winter by David Mack
• A Novel Way to Die and Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon
• Broken Harbor by Tana French
• Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
• City of Whispers by Marcia Muller
• The Complaints by Ian Rankin
• Hotwire by Alex Kava
• Two in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger
• The Fourth Bear, second in the Nursery Crimes series by Jasper Fforde
• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
• The Con Job, a Leverage tie-in novel, by Matt Forbeck

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