Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2020

Friday, 31 January 2020 16:00

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At the January 30^th, 2020 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (a variety of “Mystery Anthologies and/or Short Story Collections), we held our monthly round robin in which all 13 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 January 2020:

• The Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
• The Peter Ash series by Nick Petrie
• The Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Shamed by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear – past author selection for Just Desserts
• How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid  – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie  – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Blue Moon by Lee Child  – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Night Fire by Michael Connelly  – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Various “golden age” mysteries by Georgette Heyer
• The Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
• The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
• Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman
• Treason by Rick Campbell
• The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Fear Nothing and Never Tell, both by Lisa Gardner – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Closer by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Glass Room and others in the Vera DVD series
• Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Force of Nature and All Through the Night (both on audio) by Suzanne Brockmann
• Tiny Crimes by Lincoln Michel
• Blackout and Rupture, both by Ragnar Jonasson

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in January 2020:

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
• Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Far Shore by Paul Scheuring
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• Zoo Nebraska by Carson Vaughn
• Educated by Tara Westover (more than one reader of this)

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