Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in July 2023

Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:34

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

At the July 2023 Just Desserts meeting, 20 group members and guests participated in a discussion of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. We continued a new policy this month that began earlier this year, to make sure everyone got a turn in the Round Robin – everyone could share a single title during their verbal recommendations, but could share additional titles on a paper form – ALL titles recommended are shared below. The titles marked by an * are those specifically mentioned during the Round Robin.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2023:

• The Thing in the Snow * by Sean Adams
• The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Body in the Garden * by Katherine Schellman
• A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The works of Allison Brennan, including The Max Revere series, the Regan Merritt series, the Quinn & Costa series and the Lucy Kincaid series
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Killing Moon * by Jo Nesbo – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
• Zero Days * by Ruth Ware – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dark Angel by John Sanford – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Storm Watch by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Long Shadows by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Never Saw It Coming * by Linwood Barclay
• That Darkness by Lisa Black
• Shiver by Lisa Jackson
• Gone * by Lisa Gardner – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Fire Strike by Clive Cussler and Mike Maden
• The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Simply Lies * by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• 29 Seconds by Tim Logan
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• The Woman in the Library * by Sulari Gentill

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in July 2023:

• Remarkably Bright Creatures * by Shelby Van Pelt (4 readers this month) – a 2023 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
• The Idiots’ Club by Tony Moyle
• A Most Intriguing Lady by Sara Ferguson
• My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
• Thunderstruck * by Eric Larson
• The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
• Summer of ’69 * by Elin Hilderbrand
• Demon Copperhead * by Barbara Kingsolver – a 2023 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• It and Joyland by Stephen King
• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
• Happy Place * by Emily Henry
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties * (both the prose and graphic novel versions) by Neil Gaiman
• Love Always, Wild by A.M. Johnson
• Better Than People by Roan Parrish
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Library Book * by Susan Orleans
• The Girl Who Wrote in Silk * by Kelli Estes
• Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang – a 2023 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
• A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

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