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Reading Recommendations from May 2018 “Series Share” Just Desserts meeting
- Saturday, 02 June 2018 16:18
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At the May 31st, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, our theme was our annual “Series Share” – participants were encouraged to read the first or second volume in any “new” mystery/thriller/suspense series that has started within the past 3 years (2016-2018). Each person was encouraged to describe the series, the central character(s), the themes or tone, the setting, and ultimately whether they would give it a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” recommendation. For the most part, group members met these guidelines, though not 100%. This session was audio-recorded and will eventually be released through the libraries’ series of podcasts. We did NOT have time at the end of this month’s session for our traditional “round robin” to find out what else Just Desserts members have been reading. [NOTE: Titles not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries have been submitted as purchase suggestions through the libraries’ Suggest-a-Title form.]
Join us again on June 28, 2018 at South Branch for a group discussion of James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux (2017).
Here’s the list of the titles/series of mystery/suspense books discussed by Just Desserts members at our May 2018 meeting:
- I See You (second stand-alone novel) by Clare Macintosh [thumbs up]
- Blood’s Echo (first volume in the Veranda Cruz series) by Isabella Maldonado [thumbs up]
- Murder She Knit (first in the Knit & Nibble series) by Peggy Ehrhart [thumbs down]
- Tart of Darkness (first in the Chef-to-Go series) by Denise Swanson [thumbs up]
- A Dark and Stormy Murder (first in the Writer’s Apprentice series) by Julia Buckley [thumbs up]
- Tangled Up in a Brew (second in the Brewing Trouble series) by Joyce Tremel [thumbs down]
- Death of a Ghost (32nd in the Hamish Macbeth series) by M.C. Beaton [thumbs up]
- The Alto Wore Tweed (first in the Liturgical Mysteries series) by Mark Schweizer [thumbs up]
- Easy Pickin’s (first in the Snake Oil mystery/western series) by Marcus Galloway [thumbs up]
- Mink Island (first in the Jim and Kram Funny Mystery series) by Brent Purvis [thumbs up]
- Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (first in the Auntie Poldi series) by Mario Giordano [thumbs up]
- Plaid and Plagiarism and Scones and Scoundrels (first and second in the Highland Bookshop series) by Molly Macrae [thumbs up]
- The Crooked Staircase (third in the Jane Hawk series) by Dean Koontz [thumbs up]
- Date With Death and Date With Malice (first and second in the Dales Detective series) by Julia Chapman [thumbs up]
- Yesterday’s Echo, Night Tremors, Dark Fissures, Blood Truth (first through fourth in the Rick Cahill series) by Matt Coyle [thumbs up]
- Double Wide (first in the Prospero Stark series) by Leo W. Banks [thumbs up]
- Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder (second in the Oscar Wilde series) by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth [thumbs up]
- Missing Presumed (first in the DS Manon series) by Susie Steiner [thumbs up]
- The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (first in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series) by Leonard Goldberg [thumbs up]
- Her Royal Spyness (first in the Her Royal Spyness series) by Rhys Bowen [thumbs up]
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?