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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2012
- Friday, 17 February 2012 12:41
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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the January 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, (especially over the November/December “hiatus” that the group takes), that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:
MYSTERIES
- A House to Die For by Vicki Doudera
- Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree by Nancy Atherton
- The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
- The Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
- 10th Anniversary by James Patterson
- The Do-it-Yourself series by Jennie Bentley
- The Yellow Rose series by Leann Sweeney
- The Cats in Trouble series by Leann Sweeney
- Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride
- The Cat Sitter’s Pajamas by Blaize Clement
- As the Pig Turns, an Agatha Raisin novel by M.C. Beaton
- Maigret Goes Home by George Simenon
- The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg
- Tag Man by Archer Mayor
- The Drop by Michael Connelly
- Northwest Angle by William Kent Kreuger
- Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
- Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
- Foul Play at Four by Ann Purser
- Books by Louise Penny
- Seven Sisters by Earlene Fowler
- Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
- Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues: A Jesse Stone novel by Michael Brandman
- Books by George Simenon
- A Brutal Telling by Louis Penny
- Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
- Breakdown, a V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretsky
- The Death on Demand series by Carolyn G. Hart
- Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
- Countdown by Iris Johansen
- The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall
- The Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
- I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- The Stieg Larsson trilogy on audio
- The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
- The Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
- Books by Henning Mankell
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbo on audio
- Books by Donna Leon
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
NON-MYSTERIES
- Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
- Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost
- Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Jaynes Omolulu
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
- Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
- The Wedding Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
- Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
- This Time Together by Carol Burnett
- Pearl in China by Anchi Min
- Flower Net by Lisa See
- Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
- Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
So, what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?