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Books discussed at the January 2020 Just Desserts “Anthologies” meeting
At the January 30th, 2020 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, the assigned reading topic was “Mystery Anthologies and/or Short Story Collections”. Each participating group member was to have read ANY multi-author mystery anthology or single-author mystery short story collection, and everyone was given an opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions on whatever they had read.
Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense anthologies or short story collections discussed by Just Desserts members in January 2020:
- Murder on the Run (12 stories) by the Adams Round Table
- Manhattan Mayhem (17 stories all set in Manhattan) edited by Mary Higgins Clark
- Strange Highways (short story collection all by Dean Koontz)
- FaceOff (11 stories by pairs of authors, crossing over each of their best-known characters) edited by David Baldacci on behalf of the International Thriller Writers (two members of Just Desserts read this, one in the audiobook format)
- The Big Book of Female Detectives (approximately 80 stories) edited by Otto Penzler
- A Study in Sherlock (16 stories) – a Sherlock Holmes collection edited by Laurie King
- Matchup (11 stories by pairs of authors – one male/one female – crossing over each of their best-known characters) edited by Lee Child on behalf of the International Thriller Writers (three members of Just Desserts all read this one)
- Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives (17 stories strongly featuring animals as sleuths or sidekicks) edited by Carole Nelson Douglas
‘Casting About, Program 60
Becky, Scott and Lisa discuss some books about princesses, and a classic mystery.
‘Casting About, Program 59
After an absence of several years, our ‘Casting About podcast series returns with some seasonally appropriate book selections.
The Mystery of Agatha Christie: Bennett Martin Public Library, November 7, 2018
Scott portrays Hercule Poirot as he presents information about mystery author Agatha Christie.
A booklist and other information related to this talk are also available.
Just Desserts members shared “Memorable Stand-Alone Mysteries” last night
At the September 26th, 2019 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, 19 group members had the opportunity to share comments about a “Memorable Stand-Alone Mystery” that they’d read. Here’s the list of titles the group members shared. This meeting was audio-recorded for eventual release as a library podcast.
Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense “stand-alone” novels shared by Just Desserts members in September 2019:
- Scott read And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie, the best-selling mystery novel of all-time at over 100,000,000 copies sold!
- Rayma read Old Bones (2019) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (likely the first in a new series, but the only one out so far)
- Carolyn read Ripper (2014) by Isabel Allende
- Cathy read Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934) by Agatha Christie
- Mary read The Stranger (2015) by Harlan Coben
- Cheryl read Jericho’s Fall (2015) by Stephen Carter (though she doesn’t recommend it)
- Christy read Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) by P.D. James
- Donna read In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015) by Ruth Ware
- Vera read A Place of Execution (1999) by Val McDermid
- Cindy read The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
- Sharon read The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2018) by Ruth Ware
- Joan fondly remembered Rebecca (1938) by Daphne DuMaurier as her all-time favorite, but for this meeting read The Escape Room (2018) by Megan Goldin
- Jodi read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2007/2018 translation) by Olga Tokarczuk for the meeting, and shared that her all-time favorite is Double Bind (2007) by Chris Bohjalian
- Charlotte read Gone For Good (2002) by Harlan Coben
- Jennie read The Keeper of Lost Things (2017) and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes (2019) both by Ruth Hogan
- Don read The Survivors Club (2002) by Lisa Gardner
- Suzy read The Fourth K (1990) by Mario Puzo
- Ladena read Trust Me (2018) by Hank Phillippi Ryan
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?