Lesa's Book Critiques
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A Funeral in Mantova by David P. Wagner
If David P. Wagner's A Funeral in Mantova doesn't make you yearn for a trip to Italy to eat authentic Italian food, I think there's something wrong with you. I know that's not the purpose of Wagner's latest Rick Montoya Italian mystery, but the author brings the food...
Sunday Reading Corner
Some of you have missed the book chats featuring the mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime. Or, maybe you just miss the book chats featuring Jinx. I can't help with the fact that Berkley is now doing just a few paperback mysteries a month. But, I can still do book chats...
Sibanda and the Black Sparrowhawk by C.M. Elliott
I'll admit C.M. Elliott's third Sibanda mystery may not be easy to find in libraries. The publisher is a South African press. But, the setting is so unusual, Zimbabwe, that I wanted to introduce Sibanda and the Black Sparrowhawk. Detective Inspector Jabulani...
Winners & Food Mysteries
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Jackie B. from Waxhaw, NC won A Reckoning in the Back Country. The Long Arm of the Law is going to John B. from Grass Valley, CA. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I have a couple cozy mysteries...
April Treasures in My Closet
February went fast. It's already time for Treasures in My Closet, books that will be released in April. Let's get started. We have quite a few titles to get through. Commissaire Dupin returns in Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Fleur de Sel Murders. The old salt farmers...
What Are You Reading?
What better way to end the month than to talk about what we're reading? I'm actually reading a book that comes out in April, Rick Bragg's The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table. It's a combination memoir and cookbooks, written with all of Bragg's...
