Lesa's Book Critiques
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Kim Hays’ Favorite Books of 2024
Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome Kim Hays to the blog to talk about her favorite books read in 2024. Since Kim’s own series has been mentioned here several times, and the fourth in the Linzer and Donatelli series, Splintered Justice, is due out in...
What Are You Reading?
The dentist! It seems as if I’ve been to the dentist every week this year. Yesterday was my last appointment until June. Yay! It’s definitely March in Ohio. We had beautiful sunny weather, around 60 degrees on Tuesday. Started in the 50s on Wednesday....
Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s Kills Well with Others, it wasn’t as fresh as the first book, Killers of a Certain Age. While the idea of four female retired assassins was new at the time of the first book, it seems there’s an abundance of these...
Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty
I discovered Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy books long before The Chain made him popular worldwide. Hang on St. Christopher is another intriguing book set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. If Detective Inspector Sean Duffy can hang on for almost two...
If It Isn’t One Thing… by Steven F. Havill
If you like small town police procedurals, but haven’t been reading Steven F. Havill’s Posadas County Mysteries, you’re missing out. If It Isn’t One Thing… is a carefully plotted mystery featuring Undersheriff Estelle Reyes Guzman and...
The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig
I don’t know when I read a historical mystery as intriguing as Lauren Willig’s The Girl from Greenwich Street. Just before Christmas in 1789, Elma Sands walked out of her cousin’s boarding house in New York City, and was not seen again. Her...
