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September 2016 reading recommendations from Just Desserts members
At the September 29th, 2016 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 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 September 2016:
- McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly
- House of Secrets by ???
- Courting Trouble by Lisa Scottoline — past author selection for Just Desserts
- Hardwired by Sally Chapman
- Winter Prey and Extreme Prey by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Bone Deep by Randy Wayne White – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Tall Tail by Rita Mae Brown – past author selection for Just Desserts
- As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Grace Sees Red by Julie Hyzy – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Widow-Maker and Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron
- Acorn TV streaming subscription – lots of classic and contemporary British TV mysteries
- The Obsession (and others) by Nora Roberts
- Crowned and Dangerous and Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen
- Insidious by Catherine Coulter (several reading this)
- Bedford Square by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Feast Day of Fools and The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Off the Grid by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Highwayman (novella) by Craig Johnson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Readaholics and the Gothic Gala by Laura Diselverio
- Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
- Downfall by J.A. Jance – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Dead Joker by Anne Holt
- A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts (several reading this)
- The Night Bell by Inger Ash Wolfe
- The Murder at the Vicarage and Remember Death by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny – past author selection for Just Desserts
- My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni
- Internship in Murder by Donald Bain, based on the works of Margaret Truman – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Adventures of Ellery Queen, starring Jim Hutton, on DVD
- Fool Me Once, The Innocent and Home, all by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Redemption Road and The Last Child by John Hart
- Any Minute Now by Erik Van Lustbader
- Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
- Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder
- Naked in Death by J.D. Robb – this month’s selected author for Just Desserts
- Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The first three Kinsey Milhone novels (A is for Alibi, B is for Burglar, and C is for Corpse) by Sue Grafton – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Death on a High Floor by Charles Rosenberg
- In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Cemetery Girl #2: Inheritance, 2nd in a graphic novel mystery trilogy, by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members recommended in August 2015:
- Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (from a Man Booker Prize booktalk)
- Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (from a Man Booker Prize booktalk)
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (from a Man Booker Prize booktalk)
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (from a Man Booker Prize booktalk)
- The North Water by Ian McGuire (from a Man Booker Prize booktalk)
- Bettyville by George Hodgman – a 2016 One Book – One Lincoln finalist
- The Last Hundred Years trilogy (Some Luck, Early Warning, Golden Age) by Jane Smiley
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
J.D. Robb’s “Obsession in Death”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on September 29th, 2016, 25 of us enjoyed discussing Obsession in Death, a 2015 entry (#40) in the long-running Eve Dallas/In Death series by Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about Obsession in Death and the In Death series, in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, 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 – this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.
What do you think of Obsession in Death and the Eve Dallas/In Death series by J.D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts)?
Christopher Fowler’s “Peculiar Crimes Unit/Bryant & May” series
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on July 28th, 14 of us enjoyed discussing the 14 volumes in the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series, in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
For additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, 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 – this is a great way for you to help us promote this engaging discussion group! Our selections for future meetings are usually posted there months in advance.
What do you think of the Pecular Crimes Unit/Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler?
Weather cancels May Just Desserts meeting — but let’s still talk on-line!
Sadly, the weather conditions have forced us to cancel the May 2016 “Series Share” Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion club meeting. We’re pushing the meetings for the rest of the year back by one month, so we’ll still have a “Series Share”, just in June instead of May.
In the meantime, since we were unable to gather, let’s use this Just Desserts blog entry to have a Round Robin, like we usually do at the end of each meeting. If you’re willing, please respond with a comment to the following question:
What mysteries have you read in the past month that you would like to recommend to your fellow Just Desserts book club members?
(do not share your “Series Share” titles — save those for the June meeting)
Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – April 2016
Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the April 28th Just Desserts meeting last night, 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 or authors that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:
Mysteries
- The works of Lee Child [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The works of Sue Grafton (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Charlie Moon series by James Doss [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo
- The Doll’s House and others by M.J. Aldridge
- Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes
- Firewall by Henning Mankell
- The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
- Her Royal Spyness, In Dublin’s Fair City and Tell Me, Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen
- Hour Game by David Baldacci [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- A Comedy of Heirs and The Blood Ballad by Rett MacPherson
- Make Me by Lee Child (didn’t recommend) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Off the Trail by C.J. Box [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Firemaker by Peter May (highly recommended)
- Clawback by J.A. Jance [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Considerate Killer by Lene Kaaberbol
- The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Girl She Left Behind by Sarah Graves [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- The Wedding Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke (several people reading) [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Sweet Pepper Hero by J.J. Cook
- Wet Grave by Barbara Hambly [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Dead Letters: An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned edited by Nina Allen [813.08 Dea]
- The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Switcheroo by Aaron Elkins (not curently in library)
- The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Treachery at Lancaster Gate by Anne Perry [Past author selection for Just Desserts]
- Retribution by Val McDermid
- The Lovers by John Connelly
- The FBI series of Catherine Coulter
- Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason
Non-Mysteries
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown [797.123 Bro] (several people reading)
- The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Shanks to Shakers: Reflections of the Missouri State Penitentiary by Mark S. Schreiber (not in library)
- The Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela Toler [973.775 Tol]
So, what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?