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Mystery recommendations from April 2010 Just Desserts meeting

Just Desserts Logo 225Hey, mystery fans….looking for something good to read?
 
At the April 2010 Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, 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 and DVD sets that were hot in April with this mystery-savvy crowd:

  • The Calling by Inger Wolfe
  • A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan
  • Death of an Irish Sinner by Bartholomew Gill
  • The Kevin Kerney series by Michael McGarrity (previously used as a Just Desserts selection)
  • Aunt Dimity Down Under and others in the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
  • The Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow (previously used as a Just Desserts selection)
  • The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear (previously used as a Just Desserts selection)
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  • Helen Hath No Fury by Gillian Roberts
  • Bones: Season Three
  • Criminal Minds: The Second Season
  • Burn Notice: Season Two
  • Rosemary & Thyme
  • The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
  • The Melanie Travis series by Laurien Berenson
  • The Lee Nez series by Aimee and David Thurlo
  • Dog On It and Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn

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

Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s “Cat Fear No Evil”

catfearnoevilJust Desserts Logo 225During our April 2010 meeting, the Just Desserts mystery group discussed Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s California-set mystery Cat Fear No Evil; in her series featuring the mysterious talking cat, Joe Grey.

This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on April 29, 2010. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

Join us next on May 20th at South Branch Library (6:45 p.m.), as we discuss C.J. Box’s, Out of Range. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions can be found on the Just Desserts section of the Book Groups page of BookGuide.

And, for reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list.

Recent Mystery Recommendations – March 2010

Just Desserts Logo 225Hey, mystery fans….looking for something good to read?
 
At the March Just Desserts meeting, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, 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 this month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

  • Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  • The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner
  • The Silent Spirit by Margaret Coel
  • The Doomsday Key by James Rollins
  • The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney
  • The Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd
  • The Scotland Yard series by Deborah Crombie (who will be Author Guest of Honor at the upcoming Mayhem in the Midlands mystery conference in Omaha, May 27-29, 2010)

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

Jacqueline Winspear’s “Maisie Dobbs”

maisiedobbsJust Desserts Logo 225During our March 2010 meeting, we discussed Jacqueline Winspear’s historical mystery Maisie Dobbs; the first in her series featuring a young woman from a working-class British family who, after serving as a nurse during World War I trains to be a private investigator in London.

This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on March 25, 2010. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

Join us next on April 29th at South Branch Library (6:45 p.m.), as we discuss Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s, Cat Fear No Evil. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions can be found on the Just Desserts section of the Book Groups page of BookGuide.

And, for reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list.

Sean Doolittle’s “The Cleanup”

cleanupJust Desserts Logo 225During our February 2010 meeting, we discussed Nebraska author Sean Doolittle’s 2006 Omaha-set mystery/thriller The Cleanup; a stand-alone novel, featuring down-on-his-luck Omaha cop Matthew Worth, sentenced to providing security at a local grocery store. When Matt steps up to be the knight in shining armor to a young sales clerk who’s been badly beaten by her boyfriend, he doesn’t realize what a mess he’s gotten himself into. Combine the Polish mafia, corrupt cops, a dead money runner and one of the worst snowstorms to hit the Omaha area in years, and you’ve got a contemporary noirish/hard-boiled thriller.

This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on February 25, 2010. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

Join us next on March 25th at South Branch Library (6:45 p.m.), as we discuss Jacqueline Winspear’s, Maisie Dobbs. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions can be found on the Just Desserts section of the Book Groups page of BookGuide.

And, for reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list.