Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – June 2019

Friday, 28 June 2019 10:55

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At the June 27^th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (several of Donna Andrews’ “Meg Langslow” series), we held our monthly “round robin” in which all 19 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in June 2019:

• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (several readers)
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Trespasser by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Lost Man by Jane Harper – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Hunter by Julia Leigh
• Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Maltese Cross by Steve Berry
• Holy Ghost by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Murder on the Lusitania and Murder on the Mauretania by Conrad Allen
• Dead as a Door Knocker by Diane Kelly
• The Fifth Doctrine by Karen Robards
• The Last Second by Catherine Coulter
• Insidious Intent by Val McDermid – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Re-reading several of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz (both as audiobooks read by Rory Kinnear)
• The Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Partner by John Grisham
• The People vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid– past author selection for Just Desserts
• ??? by Charlaine Harris
• ??? by Johnathan Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in June 2019:

• The three One Book – One Lincoln finalists: There There by Tommy Orange, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, and The Faraway Brothers by Lauren Markham (multiple readers, including There There as an audiobook)
• The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
• What the Most Successful People Do by Laura Vanderkam
• Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
• The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
• The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller
• Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
• The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jennof
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
• The Light We Bury by ???

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