Lesa's Book Critiques
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Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
Fans of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express will want to travel with Sulari Gentill to discover her take on the historic train haunted by ghosts of the past in Five Found Dead. Australian twins Joe and Meredith Penvale board the train in Paris as an escape...
The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
I am in love with DS George Cross, not as a person, but as a character in a police procedural. I have the feeling he would be an exasperating person in real life, and very difficult to work with. But, his partner, DS Josie Ottey is making progress in Tim Sullivan's...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Three Strikes – You’re Dead
Once again, it's Monday and I'm halfway through two books and neither is ready for review yet. Thanks, as always, to Kevin Tipple for his review of a story collection, Three Strikes - You're Dead. After an interesting introduction by SJ Rozan that points out the...
The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O’Neal
I hadn't read one of Barbara O'Neal's novels in a few years. Thanks to Kaye Wilkinson Barley for mentioning that The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth was coming out, and that she loved it. I've been a fan of O'Neal's for over fifteen years. Veronica Barrington is at a...
His Burial Too by Catherine Aird
Nero Wolfe has his orchids. Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan has his roses. There he is, in the middle of a complicated case in Catherine Aird's His Burial Too, and he's worried that his Princess Grace rose will peak before a show on Saturday. Little things like this...
Half Magic by Edward Eager
I wish...No, wishes don't always turn out as expected in Edward Eager's juvenile book Half Magic. The four children and even an understanding adult have to bumble their way through wishes before they can get the talisman to respond correctly. In the 1920s, there was a...
