Lesa's Book Critiques
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The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb
Sharyn McCrumb returns to familiar territory, Appalachia, in The Unquiet Grave, a novel based on an actual trial. Set in West Virginia, in the late 19th century, the story of the Greenbriar Ghost was enough to convict a man of murder. In 1930, James Gardner is a...
The Bloody Black Flag by Steve Goble
"Spider John Rush resigned himself to the hard truth - he was returning to a world of cut and thrust, hide and pounce, blood and smoke, pitch and tar." No one who reads Steve Goble's debut mystery, The Bloody Black Flag, will want to sing "Yo Ho A Pirate's Life...
Body on Baker Street by Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany follows up the first fun Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, Elementary, She Read, with the equally delightful Body on Baker Street. Gemma Doyle is becoming one of my favorite amateur sleuths, although I don't think I'd want to live with her. As...
Vicki Delany and Body on Baker Street
I loved Vicki Delany's second Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, Body on Baker Street, so I asked Vicki to answer a few questions. Thank you, Vicki! Vicki, as an introduction, tell readers what you’ve been doing since the last Constable Molly Smith mystery. Quite a...
The Western Star by Craig Johnson
Readers and fans of Craig Johnson's Longmire series - here's your warning. I started Johnson's The Western Star on my lunch hour one day. I read for half an hour, spent more than an hour talking to my mother that night, and, yet, I had to stay up and finish the book....
Winners & A Police Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Donna S. from Milford, CT won The Lying Game. Carol M. from Monroeville, PA will receive The Perfect Stranger. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away two novels involving the police....
