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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2024

Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the January 2024 Just Desserts meeting, 15 group members and guests participated in a discussion of the life and works of American suspense writer Allison Brennan.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. We continued a new policy this month that began in 2023, to make sure everyone got a turn in the Round Robin – everyone could share a single title during their verbal recommendations, but could share additional titles on a paper form – ALL titles recommended are shared below. The titles marked by an * are those specifically mentioned verbally during the Round Robin.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in January 2024:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in January 2024:

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

Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in September 2022

Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the September 2022 Just Desserts meeting, 18 group members participated in our discussion of The Maid by Nita Prose.

Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which all 18 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. And one absent member shared a recent recommended read as well.

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in September 2022:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in September 2022:

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

Just Desserts — Patricia Highsmith discussion and Reading Recommendations from October 2020

Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the October 29th 2020 Just Desserts meeting that took place online using Zoom meeting software, 11 members participated in a discussion of the body of works by suspense author Patricia Highsmith, after which we held our monthly round robin in which all 11 attendees were able to share recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently.

Here’s the list of Patricia Highsmith novels that members read and mentioned during our October 2020 discussion:

Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in October 2020:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in October 2020:

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

Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – March 2019

At the March 28th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (John Connolly’s The Woman in the Woods), we held our monthly round robin in which all 19 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 March 2019:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in March 2019:

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

Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in April 2017

At the April 27th, 2017 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 18 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 April 2017:

And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in April 2017:

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