Reading Recommendations in March 2018 from Just Desserts members

Wednesday, 04 April 2018 10:00

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At the March 29th, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (Felix Francis’ Triple Crown), we held our monthly round robin in which all the 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 February 2018:

• Bibliomysteries anthology edited by Otto Penzler
• Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• A Death in Live Oak by James Grippando – upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper – upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
• Various volumes, including Absent and The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear – past title selection for Just Desserts
• Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles
• Origin by Dan Brown
• The Rooster Bar by John Grisham (several readers)
• A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
• The Truth of Time by Sue Henry
• Deep Freeze by John Sandford
• Four volumes in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Various volumes by Tess Gerritsen – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Various volumes in the Sigma Force series by James Rollins
• Various volumes, including The Ninth Girl by Tami Hoag
• Various volumes in the Mike Bowditch series by Paul Doiron – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Hangman by Chris Bohjalian
• Spider’s Web and The Storyteller by Margaret Coel – past author selection for Just Desserts
• Love Lies Bleeding by Susan Wittig Albert – past author selection for Just Desserts
• The Mirror Crack’d (1980 Movie on DVD, starring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple) based on the novel by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in February 2018:

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Various older Star Trek paperbacks, including My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane, The Vulcan Academy Murders and The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah and others by Margaret Wander Bonanno
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter

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