Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2011

Thursday, 03 February 2011 13:01

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

At the January 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. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans (via InterLibrary Loan)
• The Edge by Jeffery Deaver
• The Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
• Books by Stephen White
• Books by Harlan Coben
• Books by Gregory Iles
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (our February selection)
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Books by Peter Robinson
• Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell
• The Judas Strain by James Rollins
• Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
• The Midsomer Murders series on DVD
• The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
• The Debutante Dropout series by Susan McBride
• The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant
• The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato (not in library)
• The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
• The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• What Happened at Midnight – The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs
• The Miss Zukas/Helma Zukas series by Jo Dereske
• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
• The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz

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