Lesa's Book Critiques
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Where’s Margie?
I know how many of you enjoy Margie Bunting's posts on Thursday for "What Are You Reading?", and wondered where she was this week. Margie emailed me, and the day after she brought her son home from the hospital, she had a car accident. It was serious enough that she...
Winners and an English Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Both books are heading to California. Jean U. from Burbank won A Dream of Death. All the Rage is going to Doreen D. from Long Beach. The books are going out in the mail today. I may have mentioned it, but beginning...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you've all had a good week of reading, and a week of good weather. It's been a little cooler here, which has been nice. My current book sent me down a rabbit hole. As a librarian, I love rabbit holes of research. I know I mentioned that when I was home, we went...
The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright
I'm one of those readers who thinks fiction authors should be free to create characters and plots, and they don't have to be the same gender or race as the protagonist. It will be interesting to see what the crime fiction community says about Snowden Wright's The...
I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
Jessa Maxwell is the author of The Golden Spoon. Her second novel, I Need You to Read This, takes readers to the heyday of newspapers and advice columnists. It introduces a lonely young woman whose lifestyle leaves her a perfect victim for gaslighting. Alex Marks...
The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald
Do you remember Katarina Bivald's debut novel, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend? It came out eight years ago. Somehow, I missed her second novel, Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins. Don't make that mistake with her debut mystery, The Murders in Great...
