Lesa's Book Critiques
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The Innocents by Bridget Walsh
Anyone who enjoyed Bridget Walsh’s first Variety Palace Mystery, The Tumbling Girl, will want to return to Victorian England for the second historical mystery, The Innocents. Readers really should pick up the first book before this one, though, with the...
Off the Air by Christina Estes
Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes tackles two subjects she knows in her mystery debut; TV journalism and Phoenix. Her Tony Hillerman Prize-winning debut is Off the Air. Phoenix TV reporter Jolene Garcia is always trying to top her last story and beat the...
A Deadly Walk in Devon by Nicholas George
How about a new cozy mystery series that involves walking tours set in England? Although most of Nicholas George’s A Deadly Walk in Devon involves the murder investigation, the early part of the book describes the scenery and background of Exmoor in northern...
The Blacklin County Files by Bill Crider & Judy Crider
Although I’m reading Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries in order, I stumbled across a story collection, The Blacklin County Files. The stories in the book were published in various magazines before they were collected here. They’re quick...
Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac
There are other authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction that are better known than E.C.R. Lorac, but I enjoy her books with the wit and clever plots. Martin Edwards, who wrote the introduction to Death of an Author, suggests that Lorac had fun with the...
Winners and A Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Autumn T. from Portland, OR will receive Murder at the College Library. W.W. from Oakland, CA won Murder at an Irish Chipper. The books went out in the mail. This week’s mysteries couldn’t be more...
