Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2016

Sunday, 28 February 2016 15:00

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At the February 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 January 2016:

• The works of Tana French – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Are You Watching Me by Sinead Crowley
• Blue by ???
• Career Evil by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) [More than one group member was reading this]
• After the Storm by Linda Castillo – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Bury the Lead by David Rosenfeldt
• The Devil Wins (a Jesse Stone novel continuing Robert B. Parker’s series) by Reed Farrell Coleman
• The DVD series Midsomer Murders
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• The early volumes (A, B, C, D…) in the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag
• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Various volumes in the Phryne Fisher novel series by Kerry Greenwood – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• In Like Flynn by Rhys Bowen
• Degrees of Separation by Sue Henry
• Various volumes in the Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• The Chocolate Falcon Fraud by JoAnna Carl
• Some Like it Hawk by Donna Andrews
• Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
• A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• NYPD Red and NYPD Red 2 by John Patterson – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• Finder by Lisa Gardner – past selected author for the Just Desserts group
• A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
• Too Soon Dead – an Alexander Brass novel by Michael Kurland (not currently in the libraries)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:

• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
• The Karla Trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy, Smiley’s People) by John Le Carre
• John Le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
• The Art of Racing in the Rain (on CD) by Garth Stein
• The Reef by Nora Roberts
• Leonard: My Fifty Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man by William Shatner

And here were some additional titles sent in by e-mail after the meeting concluded:

• The Final Murder by Anne Holt
• Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (on CD) by Bill Nye

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