Lesa's Book Critiques
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The Big Chili by Julia Buckley
Julia Buckley launches her new series, The Big Chili, with a model cozy mystery. The comment "Murder held a whole town hostage to uncertainty and fear" exemplifies the spirit of the small town mystery in which the balance of the town is thrown off, and the amateur...
Devil of Delphi by Jeffrey Siger
I really should have talked about Jeffrey Siger's Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mysteries when Kristopher Zgorski, Dru Ann Love and I did the Triple Threat, but we could only pick five series. Maybe next time we do something similar I'll be able to add this series....
Bouchercon
I'm off to Bouchercon in Raleigh, leaving today. Full travel day, though. I don't get in until late this afternoon. And, rooming with my long-time online friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, who I finally get to meet! So, I'm not sure how often, or when, I'll be online....
Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
It's been a while since I read one of Jan Karon's Mitford novels, but when I read the summary of her latest, Come Rain or Come Shine, I was eager to pick it up. Anyone who read the early books in the series will remember Dooley. He stole everyone's...
Ghost to the Rescue by Carolyn Hart
Desperation. Why else would an emissary from Heaven be dispatched to earth except when someone is in desperate need? And, that's really the only reason Chief Wiggins of the Department of Good Intentions would ever want to dispatch Bailey Ruth Raeburn. In Carolyn...
A Triple Boost of Appreciation
Credit where credit is due. Kristopher Zgorski of BOLO Books had an interesting idea. What happens when three established book bloggers join forces to call attention to some underappreciated writing? You get this: the start of an occasional feature where Dru Ann...
