Lesa's Book Critiques
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Winners and Next Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Carli S. from New York City won Live, Local, and Dead. Karen M. from San Bruno, CA won A Three Book Problem. The books will go out in the mail tomorrow. I'm not running a contest this week. Yes, my sister and I are...
What Are You Reading?
Thursday! I'm looking forward to finding out about your reading choices this week. What have you been reading? Catching up on your TBR pile, or trying something new? I should have finished Josh Dygert's The Story Traveler several days ago. After I lent my copy of...
Sandie’s Corner – William Kent Krueger’s Lightning Strike
I reviewed William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike when it was released because I was lucky enough to review it for Library Journal. It never hurts, though, to run another person's review. I'm in the middle of a book, so I can talk about it tomorrow for "What Are You...
The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry
While I liked Connie Berry's The Art of Betrayal, I loved the fourth in her Kate Hamilton series, The Shadow of Memory. The traditional mystery is carefully plotted, and all the pieces fit together beautifully. The characters, the antiques, and the setting always make...
And By Fire by Evie Hawtrey
Three hundred fifty years separate two pairs of detectives, but they're linked more closely than either would suspect in Evie Hawtrey's intriguing mystery, And By Fire. While I found the contemporary police procedural more fascinating, the storyline that dealt with...
Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
What a perfect cover for Christopher Huang's Unnatural Ends. It's a complex puzzle, a trap set in a North Yorkshire estate in 1921. But, the trap was planned years earlier. In April 1921, the three children of Sir Lawrence Linwood return home to Linwood Hall for their...
