Lesa's Book Critiques
Sharing Books and Authors, with an Emphasis on MysteriesRecent Posts
Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire
There's a meme going around on Facebook that mentions words often used in mystery reviews, and then says what those words "really" mean. When I say that Ann Claire's first Christie Bookshop Mystery, Dead and Gondola, is charming, I mean that the cozy mystery has...
Winners and a Christmas Book Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Dede W. from Pearland, TX won Dewey Decimated. Marla B. from Las Vegas, NV will receive Crime for the Books. The books will go out in the mail tomorrow. I always end the book giveaways around Thanksgiving, and start...
What Are You Reading?
Some of us have already had our first taste of winter. We had three to four inches of snow last Saturday, and that's enough for me for the entire season. I am not a winter person. I don't like being outside in cold weather, and I don't like to drive in snow or ice....
The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn by Amber A. Logan
I'm going to admit right up front that I read Amber Logan's The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn because she was on a panel I moderated. And, I probably would have gotten more out of the novel if I had read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I know I missed some...
Flight Risk By Cherie Priest
Did you catch Cherie Priest's first Booking Agents mystery, Grave Reservations, when it came out last year? Leda Foley, a Seattle travel agent and sometimes psychic returns with Homicide Detective Grady Merritt in another off-beat story, Flight Risk.ed ab It's been a...
