Lesa's Book Critiques
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To Die For by Rosie Grant
Even with that title, Rosie Grant's book isn't a mystery. It's actually called To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes.The stories about the forty recipes do become a little repetitious, but the ideas behind this book are fascinating. A little background. Grant...
Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason
With the title of Murder Most Haunted, and the knowledge that Emma Mason's novel is a locked-room mystery, I was looking forward to an exciting story. Instead, I felt the story was slow-paced with dislikable characters, even the protagonist. She spent thirty years...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Well, I won't make that mistake again. I had never read one of Carley Fortune's beach reads. I had her latest one, One Golden Summer, home twice from the library, and had to take it back because there were people waiting for it. When I picked it up this time, I zipped...
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
Don't trust anyone. That's the message given to six people who agree to spend the Christmas holidays playing a mystery game at Midwinter, a village in the extreme north of England. It's also a warning to readers of Martin Edwards' first Christmas mystery, Miss Winter...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you had a good week! We had great porch-sitting weather, and then yesterday we had an all-day rain, just what we needed. Last Thursday was my favorite afternoon of the week, though. My sister, Linda, and I went to Westerville, first to a new-to-us bookstore,...
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
No, Dear Mr Knightley isn't the book I was struggling to read the other day. After reading over half of that one, I finally gave up. Instead, I moved on to Katherine Reay's epistolary novel, Dear Mr. Knightley, a contemporary update to Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs....
