Reviews + Articles

What Are You Reading?

Well, whatever I review on Saturday will be as big a surprise to me as to you. I just finished the ten mysteries for the April mystery column, so I have an enormous TBR pile. Unlimited choices! But, choices to be made. And, you'll get to read about those mysteries...

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Tucson Festival of Books

Last year, I went to Phoenix for Left Coast Crime, and I realized how much I missed Arizona in March. Well, let's face it, I always miss Arizona. But, I'm going back this year. I've also missed the Tucson Festival of Books. It's a two-day festival held on the...

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The Happy Hollisters

The Happy Hollisters

The Stratemeyer Syndicate published more than Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins and Tom Swift. They published a series of thirty-three books by "Jerry West", whose real name was Andrew E. Svenson. My sister, Linda, and I devoured these books on a...

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“In the Bleak Midwinter”

No, unfortunately, I'm not running that series on my blog. I'm also the blogger for The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, and I've been running that series on their blog. Craig Johnson is the guest author over there today. I asked a few authors to recommend some titles for...

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Have You Heard? – Latte Trouble by Cleo Coyle

“Have You Heard?” is a column featured only on Lesa’s Book Critiques.  It features many reviews of audiobooks (fiction, with a concentration in mysteries) but these reviews will include recent and past books for an interesting mixture of titles. Content is...

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