Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – April 2019

Monday, 29 April 2019 13:40

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At the April 25^th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (Val McDermid’s “Tony Hill & Carol Jordan” series), we held our monthly round robin in which all 14 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in April 2019:

• Memory Man and The Last Mile by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Witch Elm by Tana French – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts (multiple readers)
• Maisie Dobbs (and others in that series, including A Lesson in Secrets) by Victoria Winspear – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Glad One: Crazy is a Relative Term (and others in the Val Fremden humorous mystery books series by Margaret Lashley (not in the libraries’ collection)
• The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Wolf Pack by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Only to Sleep (a Philip Marlowe novel) by Lawrence Osborne
• Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves (and the Vera Stanhope DVDs) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Nightblind by Ragnar Jonassen
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (as an audiobook)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in April 2019:

• The Great Alone and Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Asymmetry by Linda Halliday
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
• The Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• Existence by David Brin

What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?