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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts Members – January 2019
- Monday, 04 February 2019 11:25
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At the January 31st, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope series), we held our monthly round robin in which all attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.
Join us again on February 28th at the next Just Desserts meeting to hear even more recommendations!
Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in January 2019:
- The Boy by Tami Hoag
- Depth of Winter by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Island of the Mad by Laurie King – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Rabbi Slept Late and The Rabbi Missed Dinner by Harry Kemelman – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew’d and I am Half Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews
- Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Midnight Line by Lee Child – past author selection for Just Desserts (several readers)
- Total Recall by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Curses by Aaron Elkin – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Unmanned and Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
- Solemn Graves, Evil For Evil and Blue Madonna by William R. Benn
- The Hush by John Hart
- The Dark Sacred Night (in audiobook format) by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Cemetery Girl Book 3: Haunted by Charlaine Harris and Christopher Golden (writers) and Geraldo Borges (artist)
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in January 2019:
- The Notorius RBG by Irin Carmon
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
- The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2017 One Book – One Lincoln winner)
- Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan
- Keeping At It!: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government by Paul A. Volcker
- Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You’ll Never Hear by Carl Hiaasen
- Winnie’s Great War by Lindsay Mattick (j)
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?