Lesa's Book Critiques
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Private Investigations edited by Victoria Zackheim
Yesterday, author Art Taylor wrote a guest post talking about writing what one knows, or what one researches. Victoria Zackheim edited a collection called Private Investigations, the perfect follow-up to Taylor's post. It's subtitled "Mystery Writers on the...
Art Taylor, Guest Author, On Writing What You Know
We have Jeffrey Marks, publisher at Crippen & Landru, to thank for today's post. He suggested Art Taylor for a piece on the blog. Thank you to both Jeffrey and Art. Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and...
What Are You Reading?
It's Thursday! Thursday, always my favorite day of the week, and you're part of the reason why. Are you ready to share what you're reading this week? While I finish a mystery for Library Journal, I'm also reading a collection of essays, although editor Victoria...
Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews
I am a sucker for books about reporters; fiction, mysteries, memoirs. Mary Kay Andrews, who is a former journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brings readers a fabulous novel, the story of one reporter, the dying newspaper business, a small town...
A Full Cold Moon by Lissa Marie Redmond
I read and enjoyed Lissa Marie Redmond's second Cold Case Investigation, The Murder Book. The fourth and latest one, A Full Cold Moon, is even better. However, I have to say Redmond is tough on her detectives of the Cold Case squad. Lauren Riley was knocked out...
Distractions
How are you feeling today? Any new distractions, or are you feeling back to normal? How is your state handling the shutdown, or didn't it shut down? I know a few states, like Iowa, didn't. Indiana is slowly letting go of the grip, but it could be tightened if Covid-19...
