Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – April 2012

Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:28

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

At the April 26th Just Desserts meeting, 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.

Here’s a list of the books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (part of the Inspector Gamache series, used previously for Just Desserts)
• Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson (part of the Goldie the Caterer series, used previously for Just Desserts)
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King, an author used previously for Just Desserts
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• D.C. Dead, Short Straw and Strategic Moves by Stuart Woods
• Hotwire by Alex Kava
• The Closer on DVD
• Brute Strength by Susan Conant
• The works of Suzanne Arruda, an author being used for next month’s Just Desserts
• Bad Boy by Peter Robinson
• The works of Margaret Coel, an author used previously for Just Desserts
• Left for Dead by J.A. Jance
• Heart of a Killer by David Rosenfelt
• Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs (part of the Temperence Brennan series, used previously for Just Desserts)
• I Am Half Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (part of the Flavia de Luce series, used previously for Just Desserts)
• The works of Margaret Truman, an author used previously for Just Desserts
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich, also in Book-on-CD format
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• Crawlspace by Sarah Graves (part of the Jacobia Tiptree series, used previously for Just Desserts)
• The works of Leann Sweeney, including The Cat the Professor and the Poison and The Cat the Lady and the Liar
• The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
• Where Memories Lie by Debra Crombie

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Lasser’s Tax Guide
• Paco: The Cat Meowed in Space by Homer Hickam
• You’re Not Doing It Right! by Michael Ian Black

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