Reviews + Articles
Anne Cleeland’s Acton & Doyle Giveaway
As promised, I have a terrific giveaway to kick off 2016. Anne Cleeland has offered to give away one set of her New Scotland Yard mysteries featuring Kathleen Doyle and Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton. She's a rookie, a Constable, and he's "the...
Happy Anniversary
Missed it! Well, that might be the first time ever that I missed the anniversary. Well, I didn't really miss it. I realized at 10:00 PM that it was Jan. 6. Eleven years ago I wrote the first post for the blog that would eventually become Lesa's Book Critiques....
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Is there anything quite as satisfying as a book in a Nora Roberts trilogy? As much as I love mysteries, there's just something about her characters and her descriptions of their lives, their homes, and, in the case of the Irish Born books, the descriptions of Irish...
Murder in Hindsight by Anne Cleeland
When I told Kaye Wilkinson Barley that I had just finished Anne Cleeland's Murder in Hindsight, I said, "sigh", and she agreed. I've finished all three of the novels about Doyle and Acton, and it's going to be hard to let the characters go. Make no mistake about...
What Are You Reading?
Do you ever read a book and get to a chapter when you know something horrific is going to happen, and put it down, saying, I can't read that right now? Sometimes, it happens when I'm reading the book at work, and think, I don't think I should read that right now on...
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
The last time I read one of Nora Roberts' trilogies, I went back and picked up an earlier one set in Ireland. Born in Fire is the first in the Irish Born Trilogy. This one brings the Irish lilt and magic to life. Margaret Mary Concannon is a glass artist who...