Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 2017

Friday, 01 September 2017 12:20

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At the August 31st, 2017 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 all 16 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 2017:

• All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
• Still Life by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel
• The Right Side by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
• Deadfall by Linda Fairstein – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (general fiction with a mystery element) [several readers]
• A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Glass Houses by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts [several readers]
• Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Great Reckoning and Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Whistler by John Grisham
• The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess – past author selections for Just Desserts
• Two Nights by Kathy Reichs – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Father Brown Mysteries on Netflix (available on DVD from the libraries)
• Castle TV series on DVD
• The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook edited by Kate White [641.5 Mys]
• Celine by Peter Heller
• The Samaritan by Mason Cross
• The Confessor by Daniel Silva – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Garage Sale Mysteries series on Hallmark Mysteries & Movies channel (a few of which are on DVD at the libraries)
• What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart (on CD) – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in August 2017:

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
• The Kid and The Commitment by Dan Savage
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [a 2017 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (many readers)
• The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• The Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• Star Trek’s Best Episodes
• Cathy attended a discussion panel event in Omaha (link no longer active) featuring a variety of Historical Fiction authors from the Omaha area – including at least one mystery author

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