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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – June 2018
At the June 28th, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux), we held our monthly round robin in which all 18 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, both mystery and non-mystery.
Here are the mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in June 2018:
- The Harlan Coben short-run TV series “Safe” on Netflix (see info about series on Wikipedia)
- A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
- The Fallen by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – Patterson was past author selection for Just Desserts
- Wolf by Mo Hayder
- Bitter Sweets by G.A. McKevitt
- The Titanic Murders by Max Allan Collins (not in libraries’ collection)
- Night School, Tripwire, and Running Blind (all on CD) by Lee Child – past author selection for Just Desserts
- City of Darkness and Light by Rhys Bowen
- The Knowledge by Martha Grimes
- The Disappeared by C.J. Box – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Cutting Edge by Jeffrey Deaver – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Bind Her, Right Behind You, and Look For Me by Lisa Gardner – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Dry and Force of Nature by Jane Harper – upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
- early volumes in the Virgil Flowers series by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- A Murder of Crows by Anthony Horowitz
- Good Blood by Aaron Elkins – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Dark Angel TV-movie on PBS (see PBS website for the series)
- Mary Ann Cotton: Dark Angel by Martin Connelly
- To Die But Once by Jacqueline Winspear – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Run-Out Groove and Victory Disc by Andrew Cartmel
Here are the non-mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in June 2018:
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist]
- Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Wild Escape by Chelsia Rose Marcius
- Folsom Prison by Jim Brown
- Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
- The Martin by Andy Weir
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Discussion of James Lee Burke’s “Robicheaux” – June 2018
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on June 28th, 2018, 18 group members discussed the latest entry in James Lee Burke’s long-running “Dave Robicheaux” New Orleans mystery/thriller series, simply titled Robicheaux. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about James Lee Burke and Robicheaux, 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 — currently through October 2018.
So…What do you think of James Lee Burke, his Dave Robicheaux series of novels (now 20 volumes), and 2018’s Robicheaux in specific?
Join us next month for a discussion of the Nebraska-set Dark Signal by Shannon Baker, at South Branch on July 26th, 2018.
Discussion of Dennis Lehane’s “Shutter Island”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on June 29th, 2017, 19 of us enjoyed discussing Shutter Island, a 2006 standalone novel by author Dennis Lehane. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about Shutter Island, 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 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane?
Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members in April 2017
At the April 27th, 2017 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 all 18 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 April 2017:
- Mystery Scene magazine — new issue just out in bookstores, featuring interview with Donna Leon
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- Racing the Devil by Charles Todd – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Bone Box by Faye Kellerman – past author selection for Just Desserts (several readers this month)
- The Banana Crème Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Man Overboard by J.A. Jance – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Quarry’s Cut and Quarry in Black by Max Allan Collins
- A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer
- The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child on audio – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Liar Liar, Sticks & Stones, and There Was a Crooked Man all by K.J. Larsen
- The Target by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Murder on the Serpentine by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Missing Man by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
- Deep Six by Clive Cussler
- City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
- Mississippi Burning by Greg Iles
- The Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Death of a Ghost by M.C. Beaton – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Random Acts by J.A. Jance – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Tell No One by Harlan Coben – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Silent Creed and Reckless Creed by Alex Kava – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Midsomer Murders (on Netflix – available on DVD from the libraries) through Set/Series#17
- Masquerade by Gayle Lynds
- Death of an Avid Reader and Woman Unknown by Frances Brody
- The Hannah Swensen mysteries and Aurora Teagarden mysteries adapated into TV-movies on DVD
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in April 2017:
- The Lake Wobegon series by Garrison Keillor (on audio)
- Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman
- The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- A Girl’s Got to Breathe: The Life of Teresa Wright by Donald Spoto
- The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
- Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita
- Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
- Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology edited by Daniel A. Simon
- Fall of the Giants by Ken Follett
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?
Discussion of Daniel Silva’s “The Black Widow”
When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met on April 27th, 2017, 18 of us enjoyed discussing The Black Widow, a 2016 entry in the bestselling Gabriel Allon thriller/suspense/espionage author Daniel Silva. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about The Black Widow and the Gabriel Allon 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 Black Widow and the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva?