Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 2016

Tuesday, 06 September 2016 17:35

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At the August 25th, 2016 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned book of the month, we had a round robin in which attendees were able to share recommendations of other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2016:

• Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
• Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo (More than one group member reading this)
• The Simple Truth by David Baldacci – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Midsomer Murders, Dalziel & Pascoe, Copper, and The Murdoch Mysteries (all on DVD) – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Bullseye by James Patterson – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• The Steel Kiss by Jeffrey Deaver – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell
• The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
• The Risk Agent series (The Risk Agent, Choke Point, The Red Room and White Bone) by Ridley Pearson
• Indemnity Only, first in the V.I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky
• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton
• The Pursuit (both print and audiobook versions) by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg – past selected authors for the Just Desserts group
• Extreme Prey by John Sandford – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Widowmaker by Paul Doiron
• Curse of the Tenth Grave (and more in that series) by Darynda Jones
• The Birder Murder mystery series – A Siege of Bitterns, A Pitying of Doves, and A Case of Falcons — by Steve Burrows
• also looking forward to A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny – past selected author for the Just Desserts group

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended:

• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
• The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
• Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

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