Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2012

Monday, 27 February 2012 12:38

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

At the February 2012 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:

Mysteries

• Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman (not in library collection)
• Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams (this 1st in series not in library collection, although others are)
• Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
• The Virginia Rich/Nancy Pickard culinary mysteries
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Jessica Fletcher mystery series
• The works of Anne Perry
• The works of Jacqueline Winspear
• The medieval mysteries of Ian Morson
• The works of Rhys Bowen
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• The St. Patrick’s Day Murders by Joanne Fluke
• The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
• Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
• The works of Walter Mosley
• Mice by Gordon Reece (not in library collection)
• Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
• Abuse of Power by Michael Savage
• Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster (not in library collection)
• Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston
• Backspin by Harlan Coben
• The works of Donna Leon
• The Confession by Charles Todd
• The Drop, and others by Michael Connelly

Non-Mysteries

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Biographies of Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne and JFK
• Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gail Tzemach Lemmon
• All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Biography of Natalie Wood
• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman

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