March 2013 reading recommendations from Just Desserts members

Friday, 29 March 2013 17:59

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the March 28th, 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:

MYSTERIES

• The works of Spencer Quinn
• Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
• The Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Shadow Creek by Joy Fielding
• Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner
• Six Years and others by Harlan Coben
• Beastly Things by Donna Leon
• Exit Music by Ian Rankin
• The Front by Patricia Cornwell
• Cold Wind by C.J. Box
• A Time for War by Michael Savage
• Killer Librarian by Mary Lou Kirwin
• Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
• The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
• The Black Box by Michael Connelly
• The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart
• A Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
• The works of Janet Evanovich
• Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich (on CD)
• Suspect by Robert Crais
• Bad Blood by Dana Stabenow
• Murder, My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
• Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
• State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
• The Christie Curse by Victoria Abbott
• The works of Harlan Coben
• The works of Patricia Cornwell
• The works of Stuart Woods
• The Brothers Karamatzov by Theodor Dostoevsky

NON-MYSTERIES

• The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
• A Weekend in Winter by Maeve Binchy
• Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
• An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Dark Half by Stephen King
• Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
• Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
• My Ideal Bookshelf by Jane Mount

What mysteries have you been reading, listening to, or watching lately?