About Lesa's Book Critiques
| I have been a library manager/administrator for over 30 years, in Ohio, Florida, Arizona, and, now, Indiana. Library Journal Mystery Reviewer of the Year 2018. 2022 Raven Award recipient from Mystery Writers of America. Recipient of the 2018 David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award from Bouchercon Board. Winner of the 2011 Arizona Library Association Outstanding Library Service Award. I am a mystery columnist for Library Journal, Mystery Readers Journal, and ReadertoReader.com. Author of the “Mystery Fiction” chapter in Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (7th ed.) Winner of the 2009 and 2010 Spinetingler Awards for Best Reviewer. |
Recent Posts
The B-Team: The Case of the Angry First Wife by Melodie Campbell
When asked to read one of Orca Book Publishers' works for a journal, I wasn't excited. Orca specializes in hi-lo reading level books for adults. Melodie Campbell's The B-Team: The Case of the Angry First Wife has a reading level of third grade. However, in just a...
The Story of Our Lives by Helen Warner
Women's friendships can last through time and problems, through immaturity and growth. Four women struggle with their friendship for twenty years in Helen Warner's intense novel, The Story of Our Lives. Sophie, Amy, Emily and Melissa were best friends at...
Forty Dead Men by Donis Casey
Fans of Charles Todd's Ian Rutledge series will recognize Gee Dub Tucker's problems in Donis Casey's latest Alafair Tucker mystery. But, when veterans of the "War to End All Wars" returned home in 1918, PTSD was not recognized as such. However, Alafair Tucker knows...