Lesa's Book Critiques
Sharing Books and Authors, with an Emphasis on MysteriesRecent Posts
A Murderer’s Guide to Mardi Gras by Ellen Byron
If you want to discover New Orleans or Louisiana in a cozy mystery, you can't do any better than Ellen Byron novels. First, she won awards for her Cajun Country mysteries, and lately for her Vintage Cookbook mysteries. Byron has other series, but these two are my...
What Are You Reading?
I guess I told all of you what I did this week when I posted about my trip to Dover, Ohio to see Linda Castillo at the Dover Public Library. Even if you haven't read her crime novels, you might want to try her short stories in A Dark Path. You'll meet her characters,...
Country Christie: Country Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie
Country Christie: Country Tales from the Queen of Mystery is a collection of twelve short stories by Agatha Christie, set in Devon and Cornwall. In fact, the introduction by Christie is her remembrances of the Torquay Regatta when she was young, with the house...
The Dog Who Followed the Moon by James Norbury
Philosophical books with heartbreakingly beautiful artwork are probably the hardest for me to discuss. I really just want to say, please pick up a copy of The Dog Who Followed the Moon by James Norbury. I have copies of two of his other books on hold at the library,...
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston
I think I put off reading Ashley Poston's The Someday Garden because I was afraid it couldn't live up to her novel, The Dead Romantics. The Dead Romantics was one of my favorite books of 2022. I enjoyed The Someday Garden with its gorgeous Maine location, lush...
Dover, Ohio and Author Linda Castillo
Friday I drove to Dover, Oho, an hour and forty-five miles from home. It's half an hour from Canton. I went to see author Linda Castillo speak at the Dover Public Library in the evening. But, I had my whole afternoon planned out. I went to the Ernest Warther Museum...
