Lesa's Book Critiques
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Hide by Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark's Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one day...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones
With that title, I really should save Darynda Jones' A Hard Day for a Hangover for the day after New Year's. I have a number of reviews coming up, though, and I'm working on a couple right now. So, it's a good time to fill in with one of Kevin Tipple's reviews. Thank...
Murder She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle by Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran
I'm sure you can tell by the title, Murder She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle, that mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is heading to Ireland, with the assistance of Terrie Farley Moran. It's Northern Ireland, with stops in Belfast and Bushmills. Moran blends mystery, a...
Christmas Thoughts
Merry Christmas! Last year, I paraphrased columnist Connie Schultz. "May the season lie lightly on your heart." For one reason or another, and I don't know why, this holiday season is not easy for a number of my friends this year. It may be that we're aging, and we're...
25 Days ‘Til Christmas by Poppy Alexander
Oh, Poppy Alexander. She's the author of The Littlest Library. Even her Christmas novels tear my heart apart before the happily-ever-after ending. And, she certainly knows how to do that in 25 Days 'Til Christmas, the story of a single mother who hasn't appreciated...
Death in the Margins by Victoria Gilbert
Victoria Gilbert's Death in the Margins is the seventh Blue Ridge Library mystery featuring Amy Webber Muir, director of the Taylorsford Public Library. When she returned to her family hometown as library director, she had not yet met Richard Muir, a dancer and...
