Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
How's everyone faring this week? I left the house once in the last week, but now I have two days in a row of dentist appointments, and I have to go out in these temperatures. There was a high of 11 degrees yesterday when I left the house. And, I know people in the...
Haunting and Homicide by Ava Burke
Ava Burke launches a new cozy mystery series set in New Orleans with Haunting and Homicide. Tallulah "Lou" Thatcher always wanted to combine a gift shop with a haunted tour of the Garden District in New Orleans. She's been able to see ghosts since she was a child, and...
Loose Lips by Kemper Donovan
Kemper Donovan has achieved that rare feat. His second Ghostwriter mystery is better than his first, The Busy Body, in my opinion. Loose Lips takes the Ghostwriter, now working under the pseudonym Belle Currer, on a cruise with 300 suspects. As Belle Currer, the...
A Lethal Walk in Lakeland by Nicholas George
While I enjoy the premise of Nicholas George's series, and I like the protagonist, there's just something off about this latest book, A Lethal Walk in Lakeland. I was just disgusted with the over-the-top behavior of the Uptons, a family of Texans on the Rovers North...
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
It took a couple powerful women in the media to point out to Ina Garten what my mother told me long ago. In her memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten said she gave a speech in which she said she had always been lucky. Oprah and Lesley Stahl both shot her...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb
J.D. Robb's sixtieth "In Death" novel, Bonded in Death, is due out on Feb. 4. That makes it perfect timing to share Kevin Tipple's review of the fifty-third in the series, Forgotten in Death. Thank you, Kevin. It is late May 2061 as Forgotten in Death: An Eve Dallas...
