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
If It Isn’t One Thing… by Steven F. Havill
If you like small town police procedurals, but haven't been reading Steven F. Havill's Posadas County Mysteries, you're missing out. If It Isn't One Thing... is a carefully plotted mystery featuring Undersheriff Estelle Reyes Guzman and her understaffed team. As...
The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig
I don't know when I read a historical mystery as intriguing as Lauren Willig's The Girl from Greenwich Street. Just before Christmas in 1789, Elma Sands walked out of her cousin's boarding house in New York City, and was not seen again. Her cousins thought she was...
April Treasures in My Closet
I better start reading right now if I want to at least get to the eight books that will be released on April 1. And, I know there are plenty of other April releases out there that aren't "in my closet". What April releases are you anticipating? I'll start with...