Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – May 2023

Friday, 26 May 2023 15:52

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the May 2023 Just Desserts meeting, 17 group members and guests participated in our annual “Series Share” session.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. We continued a new policy this month that began in February, to make sure everyone got a turn in the Round Robin – everyone could share a single title during their verbal recommendations, but could share additional titles on a paper form – ALL titles recommended are shared below, however

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in May 2023:

• Trackers * by Charles Frazier
• Forget What You Know by Christina Dodd (not recommended by this reader!)
• The Bones of Paradise * by Jonis Agee
• The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz
• A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• A Borrowing of Bones * by Paula Munier
• The Dark Tide by Simon McCleave
• Down a Dark River by Karen Odden
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
• The Safest Lies * by Megan Miranda
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gilliam McAllister
• Edge of Dusk * by Colleen Coble
• The Mitford Murders by Jessie Fellowes
• Sparring Partners  (a collection of 3 novellas) by John Grisham
• A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde
• A Study in Scarlet by Sherry Thomas
• The Ursulina * by Brian Freeman
• The Murder Book by Thomas Perry
• How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano
• Shattered by Allison Brennan
• Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
• The King’s Spy * by Andrew Swanston (not in library)
• The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris
• Bark to the Future (as an audiobook-on-cd) by Spencer Quinn

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in May 2023:

• Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• When We Had Wings * by Ariel Lawhon
• The Institute by Stephen King
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff
• Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Diversity * by Devon Price
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
• The Boys in the Bunkhouse by Dan Barry
• The Levee * (as an audiobook-on-cd) by William Kent Krueger – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Revenge of the Librarians and Department of Mind-Blowing Theories both by Tom Gauld

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