Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
Whatever I'm reading today, I'm reading on the plane as I fly back to Nashville from New York City. I've been on vacation for a week, spending time, as always, at Broadway shows, and visiting with a friend from Arizona. So, you'll actually have to talk amongst...
Have You Heard? – Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark
Thanks, again, to Sandie Herron, who writes the audiobook reviews here! Dead Until Dark Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery Book 1Written by Charlaine Harris Narrated by Johanna Parker Unabridged Audiobook Listening Length: 10 hours Publisher:...
Arrowood by Mick Finlay
Mick Finlay's atmospheric debut mystery, Arrowood, reminds me of a television show from 2011-2012. "Copper" was about an Irish cop working in a dangerous neighborhood in New York City in the 1860s. Arrowood takes readers to the dangerous streets of South London...
Shallow Grave by Brian Thiem
Brian Thiem truly is one of those authors who writes what he knows. He spent twenty-five years with the Oakland Police Department, working homicide as a detective sergeant, and later as commander of the homicide section. He also served in the Army. Detective Matt...
A Paris All Your Own edited by Eleanor Brown
After Eleanor Brown researched her own book, The Light of Paris, she wondered why people love Paris so much. And, she was surprised to see how many female, heterosexual, white women, bestselling authors, had written about Paris. So, she went to seventeen other women...
Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan
I never saw an amateur sleuth so eager to investigate a crime as Congressional staffer Kit Marshall. Colleen J. Shogan's Calamity at the Continental Club, the third Washington Whodunit, provides D.C.'s buildings for Kit's playground as she and her friends look...
