Lesa's Book Critiques
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A Spell of Murder by Clea Simon
Clea Simon launches a new cozy series that will appeal to cat lovers with A Spell of Murder. It's the first Witch Cats of Cambridge mystery. Becca's cats mean well, but when Harriet, the oldest of three cats with magical powers, conjures a pillow, Becca now believes...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you have a book or two to talk about, because I certainly don't. I spent two days in Nashville. We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland hotel and enjoyed all the Christmas decorations. I went to a Celtic Thunder concert, and spent time at Parnassus Books, the...
Books & Mortar by Gibbs M. Smith
The author and illustrator Gibbs M. Smith, along with his wife, started his book publishing company, Gibbs Smith, in 1969. He died in 2017. According to the note in the back of the book, Books & Mortar, it's a celebration of his legacy, the local bookstores...
A Gruesome Discovery by Cora Harrison
Here's a series I've read from the very beginning, Cora Harrison's Reverend Mother series set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s. I find the history of Ireland fascinating, and everything I've learned about history in recent years comes from fiction. A Gruesome...
Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy
How many of you remember that Ngaio Marsh's Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn trained as a diplomat before joining Scotland Yard? If you do, it won't surprise you that he's working undercover in World War II in New Zealand. Money in the Morgue is an unfinished...
The Second Goodbye by Patricia Smiley
Repeat after me, "I wish I had read the first book in the series, but you don't have to do that to read this book." It's become a mantra. Sometimes, you just can't start at the beginning. Detective Davie Richards is the featured detective in Patricia Smiley's Pacific...
