Lesa's Book Critiques
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Kevin’s Corner Annex – First Chance by Kasey Lansdale
I am saving most of Kevin Tipple's reviews for next week when I'll need a few since I'm going to visit a friend. But, he sent this one featuring a new-to-me author, Kasey Lansdale. Since I just started a debut historical mystery, and historicals take me longer to...
Fury in Death by J.D. Robb
In all my years reading crime fiction, I don't think I've ever cried before for the killer. I felt just as Eve Dallas did in J.D. Robb's sixty-third In Death book, Fury in Death. I felt sorry for the killer, and I was angry at the victims. If you read the book, I...
Fighting Edge by Margaret Mizushima
Fighting Edge may be my favorite of Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mysteries. Although the story becomes personal to Timber Creek K-9 officer, Deputy Mattie Walker, this one is a more straightforward police procedural than some of the other stories in the...
A Treacherous Tale by Elizabeth Penney
A Treacherous Tale is the second in Elizabeth Penney's Cambridge Bookshop series. While I want to like this series featuring an American who joins her mother and Aunt Violet to run the family bookstore in Cambridge, England, I'm afraid I'm not a fan of the female main...
Why You Should Read Children’s Books…
The title was so long, I couldn't even put it in the title line of the post. Katherine Rundell's nonfiction title is Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. This edition from 2026 is an update of the 2019 edition, and it is updated...
Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
While author Mai Mochizuki says Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop is a standalone, she does bring back a minor character from the first book, The Full Moon Coffee Shop. It doesn't hurt to have read the earlier book, but it isn't necessary. Mochizuki and her...
