Lesa's Book Critiques
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Winners and the Latest Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Trish C. from Oviedo, FL won Where They Last Saw Her. Jan L. from West Covina, CA will receive The More the Terrier. The books went out in the mail yesterday. This week, there's a little variety in the two books. You...
What Are You Reading?
This week, if you're even able to read, I hope you found an escape. I'll admit yesterday was a terrible day for me. So, I picked up something that will have humor, a mystery, and some Christmas. I'm going to need that kind of book for the next four years. I reserved...
Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
A month ago, I reviewed Paula Munier's The Night Woods, and mentioned that the theme was related to The Odyssey. Here's a second mystery, with an even larger connection, Christina Lynch's unusual Pony Confidential. I'm not crazy when I say how good this mystery was,...
The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
Three authors walk into a bar. That's how The Author's Guide to Murder really begins, although it's not the opening sentence of this clever satire of the writing community with its jokes, puns, send up of mystery and romance tropes, and, of course, murder. The Authors...
The Gardener’s Plot by Deborah J. Benoit
Deborah J. Benoit's debut, The Gardener's Plot, is a Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award winner. Not only does it introduce an interesting amateur sleuth in the cozy, but it has a gorgeous cover. The story is set in the Berkshires, and...
Bill Crider, Maintaining His Legacy
When Bill Crider died in 2018, he left behind over sixty books published by New York publishers, and a collection of paperbacks that number over 10,000, most of them from his pulp collection. But, many of us are most familiar with his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. Bill's...
