Recommended Reading List from Just Desserts members – January 2015

Friday, 30 January 2015 14:20

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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read? At the Just Desserts meeting on January 29th, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book (Jeffery Deaver’s The Skin Collector), we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• Promise Me by Harlan Coben
• Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
• Set Sail for Murder by Carolyn Hart
• The Perfect Fake by Barbara Parker
• Wait for Signs: 12 Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson
• Suspect by Robert Crais (Book-on-CD)
• The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (Book-on-CD)
• Gray Mountain by John Grisham
• To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie
• The Mangle Street Murders by M.R. Kasasian
• Dead Water by Barbara Hambly
• Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm
• Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm both by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
• Wake to Darkness by Maggie Shayne
• The Assassin by Daniel Silva
• The Target by David Baldacci
• The Whole Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson
• Black Hills by Nora Roberts
• French Pastry Murder by Leslie Meier
• The Golem of Hollywood by Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman
• The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
• Hope to Die by James Patterson
• Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman
• Knot Guilty by Betty Hechtman
• The Skin Collector by Jeffery Deaver
• Good Man Friday by Barbara Hambly
• The Sound and the Furry by Spencer Quinn
• The Hard Way by Lee Child (Book-on-CD)
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn (Book-on-CD)

NON-MYSTERIES

• Neil Armstrong: A Life in Flight by Jay Barbree
• Heart-Land: Growing Up in the Middle of Everything by Douglas Keister
• Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
• Just Shy of Harmony by Philip Gulley
• Signs and Wonders by Philip Gulley
• Christmas in Harmony by Philip Gulley
• The Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth
• The Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
• Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• We Are Not Ourselves by Thomas Matthew
• A Quilt for Christmas by Sandra Dallas
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

So, what mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?