Lesa's Book Critiques
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Winners and Food a la Death
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Ashley C. from Knoxville, TN won Dark Streets Cold Suburbs, and Charlotte W. of Covington, GA will receive Lies Come Easy. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, there's food and humor in both...
What Are You Reading?
Let's talk about what we're reading today or this week. I'm now addicted to Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Bill Slider police procedurals. I've read three in the last week, and, as I'm writing this, I have about 150 pages left in the third in the series, Necrochip. And,...
Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
I didn't know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. I hadn't read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. I'm a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of fascinating...
The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri
Whether it's the actual writing or the translation by Stephen Sartarelli, the twenty-third book in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, The Overnight Kidnapper, has enough humor involving the office staff at the police department to make it a Sicilian cousin...
A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn
I recently mentioned the Veronica Speedwell series, and a fellow librarian said it was one of his favorite series. Yes, mine too. Deanna Raybourn's adventurous Victorian lepidopterist and her fellow natural scientist, Stoker, are intelligent and witty with...
Trouble on the Books by Essie Lang
I love the setting of Essie Lang's new mystery and series. Trouble on the Books is a Castle Bookshop Mystery. Bayside Books is located in Alexandria Bay in upstate New York. The second location for the store is in Blye Castle on Blye Island. The setting is more...
