The Just Desserts Mystery Discussion Group meets the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30pm in Seminar Room 206. Each month we will discuss a particular mystery author, series, or theme. The group meets September through June.
Newcomers are always welcome!
This book group is hosted by Jon. For more information, call 725-5242 ext. 222
December 9, 2025: Peter May: The Firemaker (1999), first in the Li Yan and Margaret Campbell mysteries.
Titles for 2026:
January 13: Linda Castillo: Sworn to Silence (2009) First in the series featuring Kate Burkholder, chief of police in the Amish town of Painters Mill, Ohio.
February 10: Tony Hillerman: Skinwalkers (1986) This is number seven in the Leaphorn/Chee series, featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Navajo tribal police officers in the southwest USA.
March 10: Barry Maitland: Everyone would read a different book in the Kolla and Brock series. Kathy Kolla, a young Scotland Yard detective, and David Brock, her mentor, in London.
April 14: Josephine Tey: Daughter of Time (1951), featuring Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector.
May 12: M. L. Longworth: Death at Chateau Bremont (2011) first in the series featuring Antoine Verlaque, the chief magistrate of Aix, and his love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet, in Aix-en-Provence, France, in the Provençal mysteries.
June 9: Abir Mukherjee: A Rising Man (2017) first in the series featuring Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective serving on the Imperial Police Force, and Sergeant Surrender-Not (Surendranath) Banerjee, beginning in 1919 Calcutta, India.
