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
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked
I've been reading and reviewing a book a day, and I just crashed on that this weekend. I'm reading two books, but neither of them are pageturners. So, I welcomed Kevin Tipple's review. And, I love the title of this anthology edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy...
The Religious Body by Catherine Aird
The Religious Body by Catherine Aird
In 1966, Catherine Aird introduced her series character, Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D., and his supporting cast in the police department in The Religious Body. At the time, The New Yorker "recognized that she was writing an updated version of the...