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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2022
- Friday, 25 February 2022 10:32
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At the February 24th, 2022 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group on Zoom, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides), we held our monthly Round Robin, in which all eleven online 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 February 2022:
- The Good Detective and The Evil Men Do by John McMahon
- Curiosity Killed the Cat-Sitter and Duplicity Dogged the Dachsund by Blaize Clement
- Neon Prey by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Vanishing Act and Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
- Liars’ Legacy by Taylor Stevens
- The new Reacher TV series on Amazon Prime (several members watching this)
- Several entries in the Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr (group discussed revisiting this author) – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Several entries in the Gaslight Mystery series by Victoria Thompson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
- Targeted by Stephen Hunter
- Various new James Patterson titles – past author selection for Just Desserts
- It’s a Wonderful Woof (on audio) by Spencer Quinn – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Dark Hours (on audio) by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in February 2022:
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- No Quick Fix by Mary Calmes
- Becoming Odessa and The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Hiking Through: One Man’s Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail by Paul Stutzman
- Rhinos in Nebraska by Allison Pearce Stevens
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (several readers)
- also: I Give You My Body: How I Write Sex Scenes by Gabaldon
- The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family (on audio) by Ron and Clint Howard
- The Librarian of Saint Malo by Mario Escobar
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Index, A History of the: A Booklist Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
- We Hereby Refuse: Japanese-American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe (and others)
- It Could Be Verse (a poetry collection) by Victor Buono
What mysteries (or other things) have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?