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
Murderous Mistral by Cay Rademacher
Capitaine Roger Blanc blows into Provence, and fans flames in the same way the dangerous mistral winds do in the summer. Cay Rademacher's Murderous Mistral, translated from the German by Peter Millar, loses nothing in the translation. Blanc is a fascinating character...
Call Down the Hawk by Sheila Simonson
After a four year absence, Sheila Simonson returns to the Columbia River Gorge area for her latest Latouche County mystery, Call Down the Hawk. It's a reflective story, told from multiple viewpoints, about the tragic deaths of two domineering men who happened to...
The Countess of Prague by Stephen Weeks
Are you ready to settle in for a planned mystery series of ten books? Author Stephen Weeks, and his publisher, Poisoned Pen Press, plan to cover the years 1904-1914 in a series to feature The Countess of Prague, Beatrice von Falklenburg, known as Trixie. Her courage,...