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Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2012

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

At the February 2012 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 books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

Mysteries

• Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman (not in library collection)
• Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams (this 1st in series not in library collection, although others are)
• Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
• The Virginia Rich/Nancy Pickard culinary mysteries
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Jessica Fletcher mystery series
• The works of Anne Perry
• The works of Jacqueline Winspear
• The medieval mysteries of Ian Morson
• The works of Rhys Bowen
• Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• The St. Patrick’s Day Murders by Joanne Fluke
• The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
• Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
• The works of Walter Mosley
• Mice by Gordon Reece (not in library collection)
• Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
• Abuse of Power by Michael Savage
• Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster (not in library collection)
• Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston
• Backspin by Harlan Coben
• The works of Donna Leon
• The Confession by Charles Todd
• The Drop, and others by Michael Connelly

Non-Mysteries

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Biographies of Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne and JFK
• Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gail Tzemach Lemmon
• All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Biography of Natalie Wood
• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2012

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

At the January 2012 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, (especially over the November/December “hiatus” that the group takes), that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the books that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:

MYSTERIES

• A House to Die For by Vicki Doudera
• Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree by Nancy Atherton
• The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
• The Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
• 10^th Anniversary by James Patterson
• The Do-it-Yourself series by Jennie Bentley
• The Yellow Rose series by Leann Sweeney
• The Cats in Trouble series by Leann Sweeney
• Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride
• The Cat Sitter’s Pajamas by Blaize Clement
• As the Pig Turns, an Agatha Raisin novel by M.C. Beaton
• Maigret Goes Home by George Simenon
• The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg
• Tag Man by Archer Mayor
• The Drop by Michael Connelly
• Northwest Angle by William Kent Kreuger
• Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
• Foul Play at Four by Ann Purser
• Books by Louise Penny
• Seven Sisters by Earlene Fowler
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues: A Jesse Stone novel by Michael Brandman
• Books by George Simenon
• A Brutal Telling by Louis Penny
• Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
• Breakdown, a V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretsky
• The Death on Demand series by Carolyn G. Hart
• Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
• Countdown by Iris Johansen
• The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall
• The Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
• I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• The Stieg Larsson trilogy on audio
• The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
• The Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
• Books by Henning Mankell
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo on audio
• Books by Donna Leon
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

NON-MYSTERIES

• Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost
• Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Jaynes Omolulu
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
• The Wedding Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• This Time Together by Carol Burnett
• Pearl in China by Anchi Min
• Flower Net by Lisa See
• Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – October 2011

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

At the October 27^th, 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 in October with this mystery-savvy crowd:

• Split by Catherine Coulter
• Evil Eclairs by Jessica Beck
• Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt
• Murder and the First Lady by Elliott Roosevelt
• The Hyde Park Murders by Elliott Roosevelt
• Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
• Shockwave by John Sandford
• Blood Red Indian Summer by David Handler
• Dead by Midnight by Carolyn G. Hart
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
• The Cruelest Month, part of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny
• Hell is Empty by Craig Johnson
• On the Line by S.J. Rozen
• The Treacherous Teddy by John J. Lamb
• The Ranger by Ace Atkins
• Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton
• Thunder Bay by William Kent Kreuger
• Kill and Tell by Linda howard
• Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb
• Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton
• A Rule Against Murder, part of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny
• The Wheel of Fate by Kate Sedley

Non-Mysteries read recently by group members:

• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah
• Cutting for Stone (on CD) by Abraham Verghese
• The Story of Beautiful Girl (on CD) by Rachel Simon

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

Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – September 2011

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

At the September 29th 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:

• Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons by Blaize Clement
• At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
• The Mrs. Jeffries series by Emily Brightwell
• Naked Heat by Richard Castle
• Blood Stream by Tess Gerritsen
• A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
• The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
• Sixkill by Robert B. Parker
• One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow
• Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle by Ann B. Ross
• The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell
• Son of Stone by Stuart Woods
• Heat Wave by Richard Castle
• Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
• The Inspector Singh series by Shamini Flint
• Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
• The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
• Lucifer’s Tears by Jack Thompson
• Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
• Heat Rising by Richard Castle

Non-Mysteries recommended by group members:

• The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
• Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

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