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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – September 2011

Just Desserts Logo 225Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?

At the September 29th 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 last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

  • Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons by Blaize Clement
  • At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
  • The Mrs. Jeffries series by Emily Brightwell
  • Naked Heat by Richard Castle
  • Blood Stream by Tess Gerritsen
  • A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
  • The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
  • Sixkill by Robert B. Parker
  • One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow
  • Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle by Ann B. Ross
  • The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell
  • Son of Stone by Stuart Woods
  • Heat Wave by Richard Castle
  • Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
  • The Inspector Singh series by Shamini Flint
  • Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
  • The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
  • Lucifer’s Tears by Jack Thompson
  • Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
  • Heat Rising by Richard Castle

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

  • The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
  • Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
  • In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 2011

Just Desserts Logo 225Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
 
At the July Just Desserts meetings, after discussing our monthly “assigned” books, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries (or other works) they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot that month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

  • The works of Kathy Reichs, including Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets and Monday Mourning
  • The One Book – One Lincoln finalists, including Cutting for Stone, A History of Love and Zeitoun
  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
  • The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
  • State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
  • Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  • A couple of folks were reading Agatha Christie, including The Clocks and The Mystery of the Blue Train
  • The latest from Sue Henry
  • The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall-Smith
  • The works of Archer Mayor
  • The works of Lee Child
  • Live From Cape Canaveral by Jay Barbree
  • Vision Impossible by Victoria Laurie
  • Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
  • The Blue Virgin by M.K. Graff
  • The Faithful Place by Tana French
  • One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett

What have you been reading lately that you’d like to recommend?

Help us pick the October 2011 Just Desserts author

Just Desserts Logo 225Our October 2011 Just Desserts selection will be our first experiment of picking an author with numerous titles, for whom the library doesn’t have the minimum 8-to-10 copies of any single specific individual title to meet our group’s needs. Instead, we’ll pick the author, then Just Desserts members will be encouraged to read ANY of that author’s works, and we’ll discuss them ALL as a group, rather than everyone reading the same exact title.

Here’s your assignment before the July 28th Just Desserts meeting: Please look at the following list of three possible authors for October, and click the link below to express your preference of which of the three authors you’d like to see us pick. You may only select one of these three authors under consideration:

Charles Todd — his Ian Rutledge series, set in post-WWI England, featuring a Scotland Yard detective suffering from PTSD and haunted by the ghost of a soldier whose death he’s responsible for.

Louise Penny — her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, is set in Quebec and its environs in modern day.

Suzanne Arruda — her Jade del Cameron series is set in the 1920s in Africa, and features a strong female protagonist.

Click this link to cast your vote for which of these authors you’d like to use in October! [link now disabled]

Thanks, and enjoy voting! The voting form will remain active through the end of the day on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011.

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – May/June 2011

Just Desserts Logo 225Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
 
At the May and June Just Desserts meetings, after discussing our monthly “assigned” books, 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 that month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MAY

The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
The Wedding Cake Mystery series by Mary Jane Clark
14 by J.T. Ellison
The Bone Thief by J. Bass
Lark Rise to Candleford [DVD] Remarkable Things by Tracy Chevalier
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Discover of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Room by Emma Donahue
The Fifth Horseman by James Patterson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen [NF] The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry
The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Heartwood by Belva Plain
Sail by James Patterson
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Dead Dry by Sarah Andrews
Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
A Little Gentle Sleuthing by Betty Rowlands
Cat Coming Home by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
The works of Joanne Carl
The works of James Doss
The works of Tony Hillerman
The works of Patricia Cornwell
The works of Erle Stanley Gardner

JUNE

The works of Joanne Carl
The works of James Doss
The works of Tony Hillerman
The works of Patricia Cornwell
The works of Erle Stanley Gardner
The works of Archer Mayor
The works of Iris Johansen
The works of Patricia Cornwell
The works of Elaine Viets
The works of Joanne Pflug
The works of Craig Johnson
The works of Susan Wittig Albert
Mrs. Jeffries Forges Ahead by Emily Brightwell
The Books-on-CD editions of the works of Sarah Graves
The Sixth Lamentation by James Patterson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
A Deadly Yarn by Maggie Sefton
Aunt Dimity, Detective and others by Nancy Atherton
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana DeRosnay
House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
The Enemy by Lee Child
A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block
Death Without Company by Craig Johnson
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Fallen by Karin Slaughter
The Jane Austen series by Stephanie Barron
A Lonely Death by Charles Todd

We apologize that this entry of group recommendations doesn’t include hotlinks into the catalog — we figured it was better to at least share the info now, rather than wait another week until the links could be added. In the meantime, the August through October Just Desserts selected titles will be announced shortly!

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

Craig Johnson’s “The Cold Dish”

Just Desserts Logo 225colddishDuring our April 2011 meeting, the Just Desserts mystery fiction group discussed Craig Johnsons’s first Walt Longmire mystery novel, The Cold Dish.  This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on April 28th, 2011. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book (and series) in a reply comment to this blog post, below.

Join us next on May 19th, 2011, at South Branch Library (6:30 p.m.) — a week earlier than usual — as we discuss author Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley novel, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions have also been posted to the Book Groups page on the libraries’ BookGuide web site.

And, for additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts!

What did you think of The Cold Dish?