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Mystery recommendations from April 2010 Just Desserts meeting

Hey, 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”

catfearnoevil During 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

Hey, 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”

maisiedobbs During 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.

Recent mystery recommendations from Just Dessert members – February 2010

Hey, mystery fans….looking for something good to read?

At the February 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 what genre books were hot right now with this mystery-savvy crowd:

Aunt Dimity Down Under and others in the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
Whisper in the Blood and other early volumes in the Kate Shugak series * by Dana Stabenow
The Lee McKinney mystery series by Joanna Carl
Key Lime Pie and others in the Hannah Swensen mystery series by Joanne Fluke
The Harper Connelly mystery series by Charlaine Harris
Cold Country by Sue Henry
The Kevin Kerney mystery series * by Michael McGarrity
Fire and Ice on CD, a Joanna Brady/J.P. Beaumont crossover * by J.A. Jance
The Return of Solar Pons by August Derleth
Watchlist – a collaborative serial thriller by Jeffery Deaver and 21 other thriller writers
Talking Detective Fiction by P.D. James
Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

And finally…one of our members said he’d read a review in the new issue of Cat Fancy magazine of Shades of Grey, the latest in the Dulcie Schwartz cat-themed mystery series by Clea Simon (not currently in the libraries’ collection)