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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 2022
- Saturday, 30 July 2022 13:00
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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the July 2022 Just Desserts meeting, 15 group members participated in our discussion of Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which all 15 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers.
Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2022:
- Murder at the Monks’ Table by Sister Carol Anne O’Marie
- binging the TV series Bones (up to season 5 so far)
- Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
- The Maid by Nita Prose (our upcoming September Just Desserts selection)
- In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni
- The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
- The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea
- Bitter Roots by Ellen Crosby
- Open Carry by Marc Cameron
- Tom Clancy’s Zero Hour by Don Bentley
- Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Give Unto Others by Donna Leon – past author selection for Just Desserts
- binging various mystery series on Acorn TV streaming service
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in July 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 (as an audiobook)
- The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams – a 2022 One Book – One Lincoln Top Ten title (multiple readers)
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (multiple readers) (and another unidentified book by Louise Erdich)
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocum
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
- The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Harmel
- The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple
- Kraken: The Curious, Exciting and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams
- The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson
- The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
- The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?