Lesa's Book Critiques
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Give-a-Damn Jones by Bill Pronzini
Thanks to one of the blog readers, Jeffrey Meyerson, for steering me to Bill Pronzini's western, Give-a-Damn Jones. Artemis Jones, or Give-a-Damn Jones, is the perfect example of the American paladin, a knight of the road who rides in and cleans up a town. In...
Winners and The Doctor and Murder
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Diane N. from Honolulu, HI won Newcomer, and Glen D. of Yuba City, CA won The Line. This week, the doctor is in - in a mystery. Do No Harm by Dawn Eastman is a Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery. Trouble comes at Halloween...
What Are You Reading?
I didn't mean to leave everyone hanging when I said I do a book chat at a women's homeless shelter. This started out as something three of us did from the library, and we go once a month. We were originally going to lead book discussions, but that didn't work - for a...
Grand Slam Murders by R.J. Lee
Let me emphasize you do not need to know anything about bridge to read R.J. Lee's debut cozy mystery, Grand Slam Murders. I've never played bridge, and I know nothing about it, but the entertaining Southern characters will bring me back for the next...
Guest Author – Isabella Maldonado
Isabella Maldonado, author of the Veranda Cruz mysteries, is my guest author today. The first in the series, Blood's Echo, was the winner of the 2018 Mariposa Award for Best First Novel. It introduced Police Detective Veranda Cruz, who heads up an elite task...
