Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
90s and humid this week, so I'm tucked up at home reading in the evenings. I have a few books to read yet on deadline, so I'm reading something really light and fluffy. What about you? What are you reading this week? And, how are you doing? I have two covers to...
Joyce Yarrow, Guest Author
2020 and 2021 have been horrendous years for creatives - authors, musicians, actors. I can't help the last two groups, but I offered authors the opportunity to write a post for Lesa's Book Critiques. I hope you'll join me in welcoming them to the blog when they...
Wait for It by Jenn McKinlay
I remember when Jenn McKinlay said her first couple attempts at writing romances didn't go well. She switched to mysteries because she continually killed off people in her romances. She's proven she can write sparkling contemporary romances, as shown in her latest,...
Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
Does anyone do community, family and friends any better than Ellen Byron does in her Cajun Country series? February and Valentine's Day normally mean love and special dinners in Pelican, Louisiana, but a new restaurant in town leads to murder in Byron's Cajun Kiss...
Have You Heard? William Kent Krueger’s Northwest Angle
William Kent Krueger's Northwest Angle is the eleventh book in his Cork O'Connor series. Thanks to Sandie Herron for stepping in with a review of the audiobook for Have You Heard? Northwest AngleWritten by William Kent KruegerNarrated by Buck SchirnerSeries: Cork...
Dust to Dust by Audrey Keown
Ivy Nichols, first introduced in Audrey Keown's Murder at Hotel 1911, returns in the latest mystery set at the period-themed hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dust to Dust finds another hotel guest murdered, another employee accused, and Ivy looking for answers to...