Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members for March/April 2020

Friday, 08 May 2020 22:00

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Due to the ongoing Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, all public meetings of book discussion groups sponsored by the Lincoln City Libraries were temporarily discontinued as of March 20^th, 2020. Therefore, the members of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, have not been able to share their “Round Robin” reading recommendations at either a March or April 2020 meeting. An e-mail plea was put out to group members to submit their recent reading recommendations via e-mail by the beginning of May, and the following is what had been submitted by Friday, May 8^th, 2020:

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in March/April 2020:

• The Joe Gunther series by Archer Mayor – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Night Fire by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Peter Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Better Man by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Unto Us a Son is Given by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Gervase Fen series by Edmund Crispin, particularly Buried For Pleasure
• The Bryant and May series by Christopher Fowler, particularly Strange Tide and Wild Chamber – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Big Lie by James Grippando
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (didn’t like)
• My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
• Trust Me When I Lie by Benjamin Stevenson
• A Forgotten Murder by Jude Deveraux
• Sleeping Beauties and Elevation both by Stephen King
• Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Killing Raven by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Heart of Barkness by Spencer Quinn (as an audiobook) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle (as an audiobook)
• Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill (as an audiobook)
• A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in March/April 2020:

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield (juvenile)
• Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill (audiobook & book)
• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

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