Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

August 17, 2021

Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

August 16, 2021

I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do justice...

Jim Hanvey, Detective by Octavus Roy Cohen

August 15, 2021

Readers sometimes ask for mysteries without murder. Octavus Roy Cohen’s Jim Hanvey, Detective, fits the bill. The seven stories in the collection, first published in 1923, feature Jim Hanvey, who investigates con men and thieves. The stories originally appeared...

Gone by Morning by Michele Weinstat Miller

August 14, 2021

Michele Weinstat Miller’s debut crime novel, Gone by Morning, was good enough that I gave it a starred review in my journal review. It has such a great twist as the ending. Just perfect. But, it’s a difficult book to summarize because there are multiple...

What Are You Reading?

August 12, 2021

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...

Joyce Yarrow, Guest Author

August 11, 2021

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...