Lesa's Book Critiques
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Murder in All Honour by Anne Cleeland
Doyle and Acton are back! Anne Cleeland's latest mystery, Murder in All Honour, is not a jumping off point for the series. Her stories are as interconnected as Louise Penny's, and readers need to have read earlier ones to keep the characters straight, and to pick up...
Date with Death by Julia Chapman
The title of Julia Chapman's debut mystery, Date with Death, doesn't do it justice. Neither does the book jacket. The title and cover make it appear to be a cozy mystery. It is not. It's a traditional mystery. It's meaty with great characters. Don't hesitate to pick...
Winners and a British Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Candy K. from Erie, PA won The Silence of the Flans by Laura Bradford. Celia F. from Aspen, CO won Susan Wittig Albert's Blood Orange. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, we're going to England as the...
What Are You Reading?
Actually, I just finished a book, a marvelous book that made me nostalgic for the years when I was an adolescent reader. Author Ann Hood is only a few months older than me, so some of the books that she read and loved were ones I read around the same age. She talks...
Interview with Rebecca Cantrell
I've known Rebecca Cantrell since her third Hannah Vogel book, A Game of Lies, came out. I met her at The Poisoned Pen, spent time with her at Left Coast Crime in Santa Fe, and, best of all, had ice cream with her at The Sugar Bowl in Scottsdale. Now, I have the...
Of Books and Bagpipes by Paige Shelton
Who knew a bookstore owner could get in so much trouble? Delaney Nichols, an American now working at The Cracked Spine in Edinburgh, Scotland, rediscovers that her boss, Edwin MacAlister, has a mysterious past. Some of those secrets come to light in Paige Shelton's Of...
