Lesa's Book Critiques
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Movieland by Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg's fourth Eve Ronin mystery, Movieland, is fast-paced and riveting. While Ronin is still the focus, it's her partner, Detective Duncan Pavone, who goes rogue this time. What can the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department do when Duncan is two weeks from...
Winners and Off to England
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. The copies of The Satapur Moonstone will go to Linda M. from Portland, OR and Becky B. from Washington, D.C. One Italian Summer is going to Julia H. from Excelsior, MN. The books are going out in the mail today....
What Are You Reading?
It seems that every time I ask "What Are You Reading?", I'm starting a new book so I don't have much to say about it yet. That's okay. If I finish it, you'll read my review. If I don't, at least you heard about the book. It's actually more important that we all learn...
Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi
Grave Beginnings is the first in R.R. Virdi's Grave Report urban fantasy series. And, that cover is just perfect for a protagonist who jumps from body to body as he needs to in the series, so he'll have a different face in each book. If it sounds odd, it's perfect for...
Sandie’s Corner – Long Lost by Linda Castillo
Between my review deadline and Sunday's Tony Awards, I haven't had time to finish another book. I did go back and pick up an older title from one of the authors in the anthology Heroic Hearts. So, I should have a review of an urban fantasy on Wednesday. In the...
Heroic Hearts edited by Jim Butcher & Kerrie L. Hughes
Every once in a while, I love to pick up an urban fantasy. Quite often, it's because Jim Butcher, the author of The Dresden Files, is connected to the book. In the case of Heroic Hearts, some of the biggest names in the urban fantasy world have stories in this...
