Lesa's Book Critiques
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Stage Left by Mary Ethel Schmidt
A friend on Facebook recommended this poetry collection, Stage Left, because she knows the author, Mary Ethel Schmidt. I'm the last person to be a poetry critic. I don't read much; a little Mary Oliver, poems by a friend who is an award-winning poet. However, when she...
The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies by Kate Westbury
Kate Westbury's debut historical mystery, The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, is an engrossing story of Cold War espionage set in academia. Although there's a search for someone spying for Russia, it's the story of two students enlisted in the service of England's...
What Are You Reading?
It's been a quiet week here. If I hadn't been reading a historical mystery, I would have had a review yesterday. But, it's not easy reading, so I haven't even finished. Because it's been quiet (no complaints!), I don't have anything to talk about, weather or...
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...
