Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
It's Thursday! I look forward to catching up with you; what you've been doing, what you've been reading. Thanks for sharing with all of us. It was a quiet week here, which I needed after all my appointments, so I have nothing to share, other than the book I'm...
Lethal Prey by John Sandford
While I read the Lucas and Letty Davenport novels, the Prey novels featuring Davenport and Virgil Flowers are my favorites. Lethal Prey has a smart killer, and all the witticisms you expect from the two protagonists. And, it's a cold case, which I love. In 2003, an...
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
As much as I liked John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society, I liked When the Moon Hits Your Eye even more. This is a standalone, but Scalzi said it's sort of in a group with his last two novels, The Kaiju Preservation Society and Starter Villain. It begins at...
A Lesson in Dying by Ann Cleeves
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves gave readers the Inspector Ramsay series. Despite 1990 publication in the United Kingdom, the first book in the series, A Lesson in Dying, is only now available in the U.S. It's a village mystery, with Ramsay only on the...
Cat Got Your Killer by Sofie Ryan
Sofie Ryan's Cat Got Your Killer is the twelfth book in her Second Chance Cat Mystery series. Perhaps if I'd read more than just a couple in this series, I might be able to remember who all the characters are. There are a number of people who are friends of Sarah...
The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt
Chris Offutt's Mick Hardin novels have their ups and downs for me. I loved the first in the series, The Killing Hills, and then I seem to appreciate all the odd-numbered ones more than the even ones. The Reluctant Sheriff is the fourth to feature Mick Hardin, an...
