The Perpetual Summer by Adam Walker Phillips

January 10, 2018

HR executive Chuck Restic is back, fighting for his life, and his work life. Adam Walker Phillips manages to combine amusing stories of Human Resources in the corporate world with the dark world of an amateur sleuth.  The Perpetual Summer brings back a few...

Rich Zahradnik, Guest Blogger

January 09, 2018

Let’s talk about Rich Zahradnik’s book, Lights Out Summer, before I discuss his guest blog. Lights Out Summer (Camel Press; October 1, 2017)In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial...

A Reckoning in the Back Country by Terry Shames

January 08, 2018

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of Police Chief Samuel Craddock of Jarrett Creek, Texas. The small town lawman is authentic and believable as he deals with crimes in the small community. In Terry Shames’ latest mystery, A Reckoning in...

The Devil’s Claw by Lara Dearman

January 07, 2018

The format of today’s review may look a little odd. I originally intended this review to be for a journal, only to discover this title had already been assigned to someone else. Why waste a good review? This is formatted for that journal. However, saying that,...

Fourteen Years and Counting

January 06, 2018

Happy Anniversary to all of us! Fourteen years ago today, I started Lesa’s Book Critiques. It wasn’t called that at the time. It was originally called “Nikki’s World”. After I had reviewed for a while, Maddee James suggested I needed a...

Scones and Scoundrels by Molly MacRae

January 06, 2018

If you haven’t read Molly MacRae’s first Highland Bookshop mystery, Plaid and Plagiarism, it might take a little time to become familiar with her amateur sleuths in the second book. Scones and Scoundrels takes readers to Inversgail, Scotland, where...