Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
It's been a pretty good week here. I'm teaching the second of two Readers' Advisory classes at work today, and I love to do that. I've watched a coupled webinars as publishers are talking about their winter releases. And, I went to a new doctor, who is terrific. I...
Nail’s Crossing by Kris Lackey
Somewhere buried in Kris Lackey's first Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery, Nail's Crossing, is a plot. That plot is underneath so many chase scenes that I lost count, including one chase scene with Maytubby piloting an airplane. But, I did like Maytubby, Bond, and...
Sandie’s Corner – Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger's Fox Creek leads library holds throughout the country this week. It's the nineteenth book in the Cork O'Connor series. Although I read it several months ago for Library Journal, I'm not the expert on this series that Sandie Herron is. Sandie read...
Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley
Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I'll admit I wasn't so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O'Leary's description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But, after the first chapter,...
Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka
Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka's excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost twenty...
