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
Book Chat – August Cozy Mysteries from Berkley
This is not my best book chat. In fact, when editing, I missed one of the titles. Fortunately, I have Jinx to blame. He was a little distracting this time. It always takes me a while to film this because he insists on sitting in front of the camera, purring away. Here...
Dead, To Begin With by Bill Crider
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that." With the opening lines of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as the inspiration for his new mystery, Bill Crider challenges Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Is Jake Marley's death accidental or murder...
Besieged by Kevin Hearne
Travel back in time, and all over the world with a two-thousand-year-old Irish Druid in Kevin Hearne's story collection, Besieged. Atticus O'Sullivan relates some of his adventures to his apprentice, Granuaile, and his Irish wolfhound, Oberon. There are a...