Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – March 2019

Thursday, 04 April 2019 18:40

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At the March 28^th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (John Connolly’s The Woman in the Woods), 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 books recommended by Just Desserts members in March 2019:

• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn – past selection for Just Desserts (several readers)
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly – a different title by this month’s selected author for Just Desserts
• The Case of the Sin City Sister by Lynne Hinton
• The Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly – past author selection for Just Desserts
• City of Lies by Victoria Thompson
• The first four Frank Clevenger novels (Denial, Rejection, Compulsion, Psychopath) by Keith Ablow
• The first eight Eve Duncan novels by Iris Johansen
• Death in Live Oaks and Girl in the Glass Box by James Grippando – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Bury the Lead by Archer Mayor – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Several early entries in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny – past author selection of Just Desserts
• The Lost Man by Jane Harper – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Three volumes in the Mike Bowditch series by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
• An omnibus collection of Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Lost Bird by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Killing Time by Lee Child as a Book-on-CD – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen as a Book-on-CD (not recommended)
• Connections in Death by J.D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Several volumes in the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) as a Book-on-CD
• The Seagull by Ann Cleeves – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Toxin by Robin Cook
• Downfall by Jeff Abbott

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

• Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (several reading this during this month)
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• The White Umbrella by Brian Sewell
• The Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
• Something Haunted by Sarah Dale
• A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
• Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• (The Great American Read Facebook page)
• Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jim McGregor as a Book-on-CD
• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert as a Book-on-CD

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