Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 2018

Saturday, 01 September 2018 15:43

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At the August 30th, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (James Grippando’s Most Dangerous Place), we held our monthly round robin in which all 25 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, both mystery and non-mystery.

Here are the mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2018:

• various Inspector Lynley books by Elizabeth George – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Death and Judgment (on CD) by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Witch Elm by Tara French – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Outsider by Stephen King
• Silent Night by Robert B. Parker – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• Stripped Bare and Dark Signal both by Shannon Baker – past author/title selection for Just Desserts (several readers)
• The Dry by Jane Harper – upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
• various Virgil Flowers volumes by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Open Season by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• The Forgotten Room (on CD) by Lincoln Child
• Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Breakers by Marcia Muller – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Deeper Than the Dead and Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
• The Price of Innocence and The Time of Fog and Fire by Rhys Bowen
• Steel Toes and Teeth by Jerry Parrish
• six other Jack Swyteck novels by James Grippando – this month’s Just Desserts selected author
• Western Star by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Old Black Magic by Ace Atkins, continuing the Spenser novels of Robert B. Parker
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• The Fallen by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – Patterson was past author selection for Just Desserts
• It’s Always the Husband by Michael Campbell
• Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
• Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• After Anna by Lisa Scottoline – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Hope Never Dies (an Obama/Biden mystery novel) by Andrew Shaffer (two readers)

Here are the non-mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2018:

• The Trouble With Goats & Sheep by Joanna Cannon
• various selections from the Great American Read 100-title list
• The Handmaid’s Tale (on CD) by Margaret Atwood
• Educated (on CD) by Tara Westmore
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (several readers)
• Something Wicked by Sara Dale (newest novel from one of the library staff members)
• Curtain Up: Agatha Christie – A Life in Theater by Julius Green

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