Lesa's Book Critiques
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No Judgments by Meg Cabot
Sometimes, a fun, humorous romance is just the perfect escape. When it's a Meg Cabot book set in the Florida Keys, it's even better. In No Judgments, Cabot creates great characters; quirky, odd, kind, and giving. Throw in an enormous cast of animals, everything...
What Are You Reading?
Although I'm reading an excellent book, Jane Harper's The Lost Man, I want to tell you what I did yesterday, and what I'm going to be reading. I went to St. Louis with a friend and blogger, Kathy Boone Reel, who blogs at...
The Bodies in the Library by Marty Wingate
Marty Wingate kicks off a new cozy series, The First Edition Library Mysteries, with The Bodies in the Library. To be honest, I preferred the police over the amateur sleuth, though. For a change in a debut cozy, the investigating police officers are kind and...
Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones
Undocumented immigrants. ICE. Missing young women. Sex trafficking. If it sounds as if it's the latest newspaper account of Trump's policies, it's not. Stephen Mack Jones' second August Snow novel, Lives Laid Away, gives a whole new meaning to "Neighborhood...
A Legacy of Murder by Connie Berry
Kate Hamilton is caught up in antiques, murder, and a troubled personal life in the second intriguing mystery by Connie Berry, A Legacy of Murder. This time, the American antiques dealer is in Suffolk County, England, rather than Scotland, but she's still in a...
Beyond a Reasonable Stout by Ellie Alexander
Someday, I'm going to go back and read Ellie Alexander's other series, The Bakeshop Mysteries. A librarian friend who isn't a big cozy mystery reader raves about those books. Alexander and her characters suck a reader into a series, whether the subject matter is of...
