Reviews + Articles
Winners and Going to the Dogs Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Liz V. from Annapolis, MD won The Orphan's Guilt. Cruel as the Grave is going to Diane M. from State College, PA. The books are going out in the mail today (I think the post office is open.). Maybe I should have...
What Are You Reading?
Will anything make you feel as if you dropped in for Thursdays at Lesa's more than a family photo? Thank you to all of you for picking up the slack last week, and for wishing me safe travels. I went home to northcentral Ohio for one of those landmark birthdays for my...
An Empty Grave by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
A year or two ago, my sister suggested I try a mystery about a PI who was a former Ohio State quarterback. She hadn't read any of Andrew Welsh-Huggins' books, but she saw a synopsis on a list of Ohio authors. I finally had a chance to read the seventh in the Andy...
Wolf Kill by Cary J. Griffith
Author Cary J. Griffith originally published this book in 2013 as Wolves. Now, it has been reedited and rebranded as Wolf Kill, the first in a four book Sam Rivers mystery series. I don't know what Griffith and his editor, Mary Logue, changed, but this is a riveting...
The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt
The last book I read that used language so beautifully, so sparingly, and created such a vivid picture of a place, was James Anderson's The Never-Open Desert Diner. Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills takes readers into rural Kentucky with a hero whose story will break...
The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit by Krista Davis
There's something comforting to me about Krista Davis' Domestic Diva mysteries. I don't know if it's the familiar cast of characters after fourteen books. It's always a treat to catch up with Sophie Winston, her best friend, Nina, her ex-husband, Mars, and Bernie, the...