Lesa's Book Critiques
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Winners and More Favorites Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Jill H. from Pittsburgh, PA won Hide Away. Glen D. of Yuba City, CA won What You Don't See. The books will go out in the mail on Saturday. I have two more of my mystery favorites from 2020 to give away this week....
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading this week? Are you reading? Even though I was home yesterday because we have icy, slick roads and more expected during evening hours, I didn't read much. I spent the entire day riveted to the impeachment hearings. No matter what happens, these...
A Tourist’s Guide to Murder by V.M. Burns
It's been a few years since I read one of the books in V.M. Burns' Mystery Bookshop series. A Tourist's Guide to Murder reminds me how much I enjoy the cast and the parallel storylines in these books. Samantha Washington, owner of Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, is...
A Simple Murder by Linda Castillo
If you're expecting the latest Kate Burkholder novel by Linda Castillo, you're in for a surprise. A Simple Murder is a story collection featuring the police chief in Painters Mill, Ohio. Or maybe I should just say it features Kate Burkholder. One story introduces a...
When Harry Met Minnie by Martha Teichner
When Martha Teichner says, "Humor takes courage", she could also say this book takes courage. It took courage to write When Harry Met Minnie, and a type of courage to read the book, knowing this is a nonfiction book that involves death and tears. Teichner certainly...
The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan
Who do you give credit to when a novel in translation is beautiful and moving? Did I read Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript? How much input did the translator, Emma Ramadan, have? I'll never know, but kudos to both of them for the feelings this epistolary novel...
