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
Desert Vengeance by Betty Webb
Recently, author Anne Perry posed a moral question. Should you do something morally repugnant to you in order to fulfill a duty? Private investigator Lena Jones faces a moral question in Betty Webb's latest mystery, Desert Vengeance. Should she hunt for the...
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
There was something poignant about reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal's memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. I checked it out of the library when I read her piece in The New York Times, "You May Want to Marry My Husband,"http://nyti.ms/2mFk0fE. Rosenthal wrote the...
Bel of the Brawl by Maggie McConnon
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." The quote from William Butler Yeats describes Belfast McGrath's life. Maggie McConnon digs deeper into Bel's pain in the second book in the mystery series,...