Lesa's Book Critiques
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Agatha Award Winners
Congratulations to this year's Agatha Award winners. The nominees are voted on by the attendees at Malice Domestic. The awards were announced on Saturday night. Named after Agatha Christie, the winners represent traditional mysteries. These books were originally...
Bottom Feeders by John Shepphird
John Shepphird's debut novel, Bottom Feeders, is for those readers who enjoyed Gina Wohlsdorf's Security. It's a violent, gory novel that reads as if it were a screenplay for a horror movie. Who is targeting the cast and crew of a small budget Western? Eddie...
Winners and an Exotic Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. A Crime of Poison is going to Marilyn W. of Sheffield, AL. I had two copies of The Purloined Puzzle. They're going to Donna B. from Garnet Valley, PA and Glen D. of Yuba City, CA. They're going out in the mail today....
What Are You Reading?
Let's talk about what we're reading this week, or in my case, not only what I'm reading, but what I bought and hope to read. I bought two books recently. I'm reading Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum. You won't see a...
Ten Year Stretch edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller
Ten Year Stretch is a crime fiction anthology to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest in Bristol, England. Peter James wrote the foreword. Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller edited it. Edwards writes the introduction about the authors and Muller writes the...
Claws for Concern by Miranda James
It's always a pleasure to return to Mississippi to the world of Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel. Although Charlie gets involved in murder investigations, he's grounded with his job, his family, and good friends. It was time to pick up Miranda James'...
