Reviews + Articles
Winners and Suspense
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Susan B. from Seattle, WA won Disturbing the Dead. Sharon B. from Albuquerque, NM will receive A Deadly Endeavor. The books went out in the mail yesterday. This week, I have a suspense novel and a PI novel....
What Are You Reading?
Welcome to what Kaye Wilkinson Barley calls "Thursdays at Lesa's". Great name for Thursday if I didn't already call it "What Are You Reading?" Or, I should say, what's going on with your weather, your life, and your reading. We talk about all of that on Thursdays...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats
I didn't get my current book read in order to review it here today, so I turned to a review from Kevin Tipple. I'll have "What Are You Reading?" up on Thursday, but I'm heading out that day to spend the weekend with my mother and sisters for my Mom's birthday. So,...
Smoke and Mirrors by M.E. Hilliard
M.E. Hilliard wraps up a four-book story arc with Smoke and Mirrors, but leaves a hint for the next book. Librarian Greer Hogan has been hunting for answers as to her husband's murder four years earlier, a storyline that began with The Unkindness of Ravens. Now,...
Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver
I didn't read the first in John Copenhaver's Nightingale Trilogy, The Savage Kind, and it isn't necessary to have that background before reading Hall of Mirrors. However, it wouldn't hurt to meet Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson in the previous book when they...
The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman
Katharine Schellman's third Nightingale mystery, The Last Note of Warning, is as gripping as the previous two in the series. The books all capture the atmosphere and grittiness of life for the working class in 1920s New York City. There's glamour in the underground...