Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
Welcome to Thursday, and what are you reading! My favorite day of the week. Maybe not my favorite week because I'm cramming right now, trying to read to moderate a panel next week. That's okay. I still want to catch up with all of you. How are you doing? And, my...
To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters
Reminder to myself. NEVER read someone else's review before writing one of the same book. While I enjoyed Martha Waters' To Love and to Loathe, her follow-up to To Have and to Hoax, one reviewers was so angry about a plot point that she went on about it. Frankly, I...
Clare Whitfield, author Interview
I don't think I ever had an author tell me one of my interview questions made them emotional. But, Clare Whitfield is a debut author. Soon she'll be experienced at interviews, and a hardened interviewee. (I'm happy to have caught her early on while questions are still...
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield
Remember that title, People of Abandoned Character. There's really no one in Clare Whitfield's debut historical mystery that I would care to know, not even the narrator. However, the more I thought about the book, the more I realized it did just exactly what the...
Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks
I don't know if Mariah Fredericks' Death of a Showman is that much better than the other three Jane Prescott mysteries or if it's my passion for Broadway that makes this one shine. She excels at the behind-the-scenes machinations of a Broadway musical. And,...
Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
All those books in my place, and one Saturday I couldn't find anything I wanted to read. I really wanted a traditional mystery because I had just watched "Agatha Christie's England" on PBS. So, I turned to Ann Cleeves and the second Vera Stanhope mystery, Telling...
