Lesa's Book Critiques
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Book Chat – June Mysteries from Penguin’s Berkley Prime Crime & Obsidian
Sorry that there are no cats this month. Jinx was napping. However, here's the list of titles from the book chat. Truffled to Death - Kathy Aarons (2nd Chocolate Covered Mystery) A Fatal Chapter - Lorna Barrett (9th Booktown Mystery, hardcover) Fat Cat Spreads Out -...
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
I've been a Mary Kay Andrews fan since the early '90s when she was writing mysteries under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck. And, as much as I liked those books, and have enjoyed some of her standalones written under Andrews, she's moved up a notch with Beach Town....
Fillet of Murder by Linda Reilly
Something's fishy in the Wrensdale Arcade, a group of shops in the Berkshires designed as an old English village. And, Talia Marby is just the person to discover why so many people disliked Phil Turnbull, and which of them hated him enough to kill him. Fillet of...
Murder with a Twist by Tracy Kiely
A toast to Tracy Kiely for her wonderful, entertaining homage to The Thin Man. From the opening scene when Nicole (Nic) watches her husband, Nigel Martini, dragged into the bar by an enormous Bullmastiff named Skippy, the reader knows Murder with a Twist is...
Winners and a New York City Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contests. Judith L. of Claremont, CA won the copy of Craig Johnson's Any Other Name. Carola Dunn's Heirs of the Body will go to Barbara L. from Redding, CA. And, The Revenant of Thraxton Hall is going to Anita Y. from...
What Are You Reading?
If you know how long The Shell Seekers is, you know why I haven't finished another book yet. In fact, I just started a mystery, the first in a new series. I think that's the cutest cover on Linda Reilly's Fillet of Murder. So, I think it's been a few weeks since...
