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Tag Archives: mystery
Joanne Fluke’s “The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on August 29th, 2013, 18 of us enjoyed discussing Joanne Fluke’s original first volume in the popular Hannah Swensen series, The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.
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.
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 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke?
Join us next on September 26th at the South Branch Library for discussion of Lisa Gardner’s first D.D. Warren mystery, Alone!
Robert Crais’ “The Sentry”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on July 25, 2013, 17 of us enjoyed discussing the 2011 novel The Sentry by Robert Crais, part of his Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series.
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.
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 Sentry by Robert Crais?
Join us next on August 29th at the South Branch Library for discussion of Joanne Fluke’s The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder!
June 2013 reading recommendations from the Just Desserts mystery book group
Here is the list of reading recommendations from the June 2013 Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group meeting. After discussing our book-of-the-month, the group did a round robin, asking members to say what they’d been reading lately that they’d recommend.
Here is the list of titles that were hot with this mystery-savvy bunch of readers last month:
MYSTERIES/THRILLERS/SUSPENSE
Inferno by Dan Brown (several of the group)
Shadows on the Coast of Maine by Lea Wait
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen – our author-of-the-month for The Keepsake
A Monstrous Regiment of Women and others by Laurie King
Murder Buys a T-Shirt by Christiy Fyfield
Angels & Demons and The Lost Symbol, both by Dan Brown, both as audiobooks
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Wonderland by Ace Atkins
The 12th of Never by James Patterson
The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart
The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell
Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel
various works by Brad Thor, C.J. Box, and Gayle Lynds (one of Robert Ludlum’s successors)
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince by Nancy Atherton
The Reveral by Michael Connelly
The Husband by Dean Koontz
the tv series Perception on TNT
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen on audiobook
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
The works of Keith McCafferty
The works of Sandra Brown
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
The Forgetten Man by Robert Crais
Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief by Dorothy Gilman
Echo Burning and Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Jane and the Canterbury Tale by Stephanie Barron
Power Play by Ridley Pearson
NON-MYSTERIES
The Yanohlosee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton Disclafani
The Garden of Evenings Mist by Twan Eng Tan
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Sandler
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
What you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Tess Gerritsen’s “The Keepsake”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on June 27th, 2013, 16 of us discussed the 2008 novel The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen, one of her Rizzoli & Isles mystery thrillers, which inspired the TNT television series of the same name.
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.
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 Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen?
Tana French’s “Into the Woods”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on April 25, 2013, 16 of us discussed the multi-award-winning 2007 novel In the Woods by Tana French.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.
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 In the Woods by Tana French, set in Ireland?
Join us next on May 30th at the South Branch Library for a special discussion — all participants are encouraged to read a volume in a NEW “cozy” or “amateur detective” series (that launched from 2011 to 2013), and share their impressions with the rest of the group!