October 2010 mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members

Sunday, 31 October 2010 14:25

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

At the October 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 Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
• Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, and The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall-Smith, the latest in the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series, previously used as a Just Desserts selection
• The Immigrants by Howard Fast
• The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
• Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
• The Spider’s Web by Margaret Coel
• Murder by the Glass by Michele Scott, part of the Wine Lovers Mystery series
• Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
• Seasons of Bones and Criminal Minds on DVD
• Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
• State Fair by Earlene Fowler
• Recent works by C.J. Box
• Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
• The Hardy Boys and the Shortwave Mystery by Franklin Dixon
• The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites by J.S. Borthwick
• The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Maid of Murder by Amanda Fowler
• The latest issue of Mystery Scene magazine

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