Lesa's Book Critiques
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Off the Map by Trish Doller
Trish Doller's female characters just speak to me. If you read Float Plan, you might remember Anne, whose fiance died, and she impulsively decided to sail the world. In Off the Map, readers can catch up with Anne when Carla Black flies to Ireland to be maid of honor...
Winners and a Cozy Corner Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Leslie K. from Plymouth, MN won Dead And Gondola. The Accomplice will go to Patrick M. from York, ME. The books will go out in the mail today (unless the weather is worse than I expect). This week, there are Scottish...
What Are You Reading?
After sitting in the stairwell at work for forty-five minutes on Friday, during a tornado warning, Monday was glorious here. It was a record high of 77, and sunny. I'd take that any day. Now, we're back in the fifties, of course, but that's typical March weather....
Standing Dead by Margaret Mizushima
As much as I like Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 series, I was happy to see the ongoing storyline of Mattie Wray's family end in Standing Dead. At least it felt as if it came to a logical conclusion. I'm hoping we can move on to more traditional investigations...
Bert and Mamie Take a Cruise by John Keyse-Walker
Well, John Keyse-Walker's Bert and Mamie Take a Cruise wasn't at all what I expected. I thought I would be reading a cozy armchair traveler mystery set in 1939. Well, yes and no. There's much more foreshadowing of World War II than I expected. There are excellent...
The Deadly Weed by Cora Harrison
The Deadly Weed is the tenth Reverend Mother mystery set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s. I appreciate Cora Harrison's series for the history and atmospheric contrast between the poor and the slums of Cork and the moneyed class. But, this time, the book was repetitive,...
