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
Once Upon a Spine by Kate Carlisle
The eleventh Bibliophile mystery by Kate Carlisle, Once Upon a Spine, is an entertaining combination of family, a close-knit neighborhood, and murder. Add book lore, a few recipes, and amateur sleuth Brooklyn Wainwright into the cozy mystery mix. Brooklyn is a...
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes, ed. by Martin Edwards
I've always been a fan of locked-room mysteries. I went through a streak when I read every book I could find by John Dickson Carr. Now, as part of the British Library Crime Classics series, editor Martin Edwards presents sixteen stories from the "Golden Age of...
Shiver Hitch by Linda Greenlaw
It's been nine years since Linda Greenlaw's last Jane Bunker mystery, Fisherman's Bend. Now, she brings back the former Florida police detective who left for Maine. Jane, insurance investigator and Assistant Deputy Sheriff, narrates the story of a simple case that...