Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in August 2022

Monday, 29 August 2022 18:44

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the August 2022 Just Desserts meeting, 19 group members participated in our discussion of both Camino Island and Camino Winds by John Grisham.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which all 19 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. And one absent member shared her recent recommended read by e-mail as well.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in August 2022:

• The Bourne Sacrifice by Brian Freeman
• Rising Tiger by Brad Thor
• Overboard by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
• A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
• Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen – past author selection for Just Desserts
• binging the TV series Bones (up to season 5 so far)
• Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (multiple readers)
• The Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette
• Glad One by Margaret Lashley
• The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
• Various entries in the Tourist Trap mystery series by Lynn Cahoon
• The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The President’s Daughter by James Patterson and Bill Clinton – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Run Rose Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, and Poirot Investigates (a short story collection), the first three Hercule Poirot novels, all as audiobooks to hear David Suchet’s Poirot accent (in preparation for auditioning for that role in the play Murder on the Orient Express, being produced in early 2023 by Community Players in Beatrice) – by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in August 2022:

• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln Top Ten title
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln Top Ten title (multiple readers)
• The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
• Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Foundling by Ann Leary
• The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
• Oh William by Elizabeth Strout
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Caravans by James Michener
• The Widows of Champagne by Renee Ryan

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