Lesa's Book Critiques
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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...
New York, New York
I promised you pictures and the story of my recent trip to New York City to receive the Raven Award from Mystery Writers of America. There were other moments in the trip, too. I flew into New York on Wednesday, April 27. The Marriott Marquis Times Square was the hotel...
A Cozy Mystery Giveaway
This week, I'm giving away two cozy mysteries. Let's start with Vicki Delany's A Three Book Problem. Gemma Doyle is back on the case in bestselling author Vicki Delany's seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery when a poisoned dart ends in demise. It's a crisp, early...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you have books to talk about today. I admit with all the excitement of the Raven Award and New York City, I haven't really settled into a book. I keep picking up books and putting them down. Eventually, I'll find something I really want to read. At the moment,...
