Lesa's Book Critiques
Sharing Books and Authors, with an Emphasis on MysteriesRecent Posts
What Are You Reading?
For me, the question this week should be, how many books are you reading as you try to find one you'll finish? Actually, I finished one, but it's for Library Journal, and it wasn't quite up to the previous books, so I won't mention it. I did tear through three...
The Marshal and the Mystical Mountain by C.M. Wendelboe
A month ago, I reviewed a frontier mystery set during the 1920s in Rocky Mountain National Park. C.M. Wendelboe's The Marshal and the Mystical Mountain is a compelling, violent story for all of us who love the works of Craig Johnson and Margaret Cole....
Katharine Schellman, Author Interview
I don't always have a book trailer to share for a debut novelist. Since The Body in the Garden is one of my favorite books of the year so far, I'm please to share it. I'm even more pleased that I had the opportunity to interview Katharine Schellman. Thank you,...
The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman
Crushed. I was just crushed when I went to review Katharine Schellman's debut mystery for a mystery column, and someone else had been assigned to the book. They better write a good review, because I loved this debut, and I'm looking forward to the next one. But, in...
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
I've admitted that I hadn't been able to read much lately. Even the previous book in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series, An Offer from a Gentleman, didn't entice me. I've never been found of the Cinderella trope, except for Rodgers and Hammerstein. But, Romancing...
A Star is Dead by Elaine Viets
I had never heard of a death investigator before reading Elaine Viets' latest Angela Richman, Death Investigator mystery. According to the web site, Coroner Talk, "The role of the medicolegal death investigator is to investigate any death that falls under the...
