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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – March 2011

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

At the March 31st 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:

• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• To Have and to Kill by Mary Jane Clark
• 14 by J.T. Ellison
• The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The 5^th Horseman by James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club series)
• City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
• Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
• Sail by James Patterson
• Dead Dry in the Em Hansen series by Sarah Andrews
• Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
• The Lee McKinney series by JoAnna Carl
• The Charlie Moon series by James Doss
• The works of Tony Hillerman
• The works of Patricia Cornwell
• The works of Erle Stanley Gardner
• A Little Gentle Sleuthing – the first in the Melissa Craig series by Betty Rowlands
• Cat Coming Home – one of the latest Joe Grey mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The works of Ray Kurzweil
• The DVD series Lark Rise to Candleford
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Works about John Wesley
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Room by Emily Donoghue
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
• The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
• Heartwood by Belva Plain
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2011

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

At the January Just Desserts meeting last week, 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:

• The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans (via InterLibrary Loan)
• The Edge by Jeffery Deaver
• The Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
• Books by Stephen White
• Books by Harlan Coben
• Books by Gregory Iles
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (our February selection)
• The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
• Books by Peter Robinson
• Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell
• The Judas Strain by James Rollins
• Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
• The Midsomer Murders series on DVD
• The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
• The Debutante Dropout series by Susan McBride
• The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant
• The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato (not in library)
• The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
• The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
• What Happened at Midnight – The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs
• The Miss Zukas/Helma Zukas series by Jo Dereske
• The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
• I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
• The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz

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