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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – August 2021
- Friday, 03 September 2021 16:31
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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the August 2021 Just Desserts meeting that took place in-person at the Bennett Martin Public Library, 13 group members participated in a discussion of Chris Bohjalian’s The Red Lotus. Following that discussion, we held our monthly round robin in which all 13 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.
Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2021:
- The older books The Poet and The Narrows by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The new book The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
- Several books by Kate Quinn
- Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
- In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Fiancee’s Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman
- Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- The Girl From the Train by Irma Joubert
- Several series novels by Karin Slaughter – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Various Myron Bolitar series novels by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Various V.I. Warshawski series novels by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – past author and title selection for Just Desserts
- A Crooked House by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Curtain Cails (three novels collection – Enter a Murderer, Night at the Vulcan and Killer Dolphin) by Ngaio Marsh – past author selection for Just Desserts
- His Right Hand by Mette Ivie Harrison
- Various in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Bounty (a Fox & O’Hare novel) by Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton (two readers, including one on audiobook) – past author selection for Just Desserts (Evanovich)
- Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
- Artemis by Andy Weir (ostensibly science fiction, but actually a “heist” story on a lunar community)
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in August 2021:
- Golden Girl: A Novel by Elin Hillenbrand
- The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (two readers)
- The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion (as an audiobook)