Lesa's Book Critiques
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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Don’t expect another version of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club with We Solve Murders. In fact, it reminds me more of Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age. We Solve Murders was a little slow in starting, but once Rosie...
I Dreamed of Falling by Julia Dahl
Julia Dahl’s latest standalone, I Dreamed of Falling, is as dark as the cover. What do we really know about the people we love? And, what secrets are there in a small town? Roman Grady is the only reporter for a newspaper in a small Hudson Valley town. He...
Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg
Although Lee Goldberg’s Ashes Never Lie is the second novel featuring his arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, the author manages to incorporate his other series characters, Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone, into this complex story. He adds a...
Kevin’s Corner Annex: Tom Sharp: the Man and the Legend by Charlie Steel
Today, while I head home from West Virginia, Kevin Tipple reviews a western for us, a book that came out last year. Thank you, Kevin, for your review of Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend by Charlie Steel. Tom Sharp: The Man And The Legend (A Novel) by Charlie Steel...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Mojito Coast by Richard Helms
Kevin Tipple somehow senses when I’m going to be out of town again. Today, my family is boarding the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad in Romney, West Virginia, for a trip that takes us through the countryside, where we might be lucky enough to see eagles...
Winners and Foreign Mysteries
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Leslie K. from Plymouth, MN won The House By the Cemetery. Diane M. of Chapel Hill, NC will receive All the Way Gone. The books went out in the mail yesterday. This week, I’m giving away two mysteries set in...
