Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
Here in Indiana, it's a much better weather week! I can handle 50s and rain in February. That's so much better than snow. Again, I want to thank all of the Thursday readers who shared their Favorite Books of 2022 with all of us. Yesterday, Margie Bunting posted her...
Margie Bunting’s Favorite Books of 2022
Today, Margie Bunting is the final reader to share her favorite books of 2022. Before we launch into her post, I just want to thank the others who shared their favorite books: Rosemary Kaye, Jeff Meyerson, Glen Davis, Kevin Tipple, and Sandie Herron. Everyone has a...
A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie
It has been several years since fans have been able to catch up with Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, their police teams, and their family. A Killing of Innocents, the nineteenth in the series, doesn't disappoint. Detective Sergeant Duncan Kincaid noticed the young woman...
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb
I would have expected that J.D. Robb's Encore in Death, a police procedural set in the world of Broadway and Hollywood, would have been one of my favorites in the series. But, it wasn't quite up to the tension of Desperation in Death, the previous book in the series....
Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan
I don't know if this is a compliment or not, but I certainly intended it as one. I found myself so caught up in the relationships and characters in Ellie Brannigan's Murder at an Irish Castle, that I forgot there had been a suspicious death, and there was reason for...
Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings
It seems this is the season for "Agony Aunt" mysteries. Although Mary Winters' March release, Murder in Postscript is set twenty years earlier than Anastasia Hastings' Of Manners and Murder, both books feature young women tasked with writing advice columns in London....
