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
Another Man’s Ground by Claire Booth
Local History and culture. Politics. And, of course, murder. Branson, Missouri's Sheriff Hank Worth faces it all in Claire Booth's Another Man's Ground. It's an outstanding police procedural with touches of humor throughout. When Vern Miles reports the theft...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you're all around today because I'm a day early with this question. I promised Thursday for a book review - go figure. I'll be reviewing Claire Booth's second Hank Worth mystery set in Branson, Missouri, Another Man's Ground. In fact, that's what I'm...
The Dress in the Window by Sofia Grant
It's release day for Sophie Littlefield's historical novel, The Dress in the Window, written under the name Sofia Grant. The character-driven book takes readers back to the period from 1948 to 1952, a time when women who lost men in the war had to find a way to...