Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 2016

Friday, 28 October 2016 02:59

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At the October 27th, 2016 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned book of the month, we had a round robin in which all 23 attendees were able to share recommendations of other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of mystery books recommended by Just Desserts members in October 2016:

• The Trespasser by Tana French – past author selection for Just Desserts
• A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts (several readers this month!)
• A Time of Torment by John Connolly
• Little Boy Blue (several readers) and Hide and Seek by M.J. Arlidge
• Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
• The Highwayman (novella) and The Messenger and An Obvious Fact (several readers) by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Home by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
• High Crimes by Joseph Finder
• Fer-de-Lance (on CD) by Rex Stout – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass
• Robert B. Parker’s A Debt to Pay by Reed Farrel Coleman
• Accept the Dying by Maureen Jennings
• The entire Mike Bowditch series by Paul Doiron
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Joseph E. Leslie
• Blacklist by Sara Paretsky – a past title/author selection for Just Desserts
• Longmire tv-series on Netflix (earlier seasons also available on DVD from the libraries)
• Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
• The D.A. Takes a Chance by Erle Stanley Gardner
• Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• Pretty Girl by Karin Slaughter – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• In the Dark Places by Peter Robinson – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Bachelor Girls’ Guide to Murder by Rachel McMillan
• The Ex by Alafair Burke – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• Dark of the Moon by John Sandford a past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Curious Minds by ???
• Winter’s Child by Margaret Coel – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• Manitou Canyon by William Kent Krueger – a past author selection for Just Desserts (multiple readers)
• Killer Look by Linda Fairstein – a past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Girl in Cabin 10 (and In a Dark Dark Wood) by Ruth Ware
• Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melena Marchetta
• The Aurora Teagarden tv-movies starring Candace Cameron Bure, based on the novels by Charlaine Harris (4 have aired on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries cable channel but 2 are also out on DVD)

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in October 2016:

• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
• Arrowood by Laura McHugh
• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
• Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
• At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
• Keeper of the Keys: A Warden’s Notebook by Wayne K. Patterson and Betty Ault
• The Perfect Victim by Christine McGuire and Paula Norton
• Silence by Thich Nhat Hanh (and other books on Buddhist thought)

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