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
The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard
Last Thursday, I mentioned I had slowed down while reading Alex Howard's The Ghost Cat. Even when I finished, my opinion didn't change. While I enjoyed the early years of Grimalkin, the cat from Edinburgh, I didn't enjoy the second half of Grimalkin's lives. By...
The Mirror by Nora Roberts
If you're one of the many readers that loved Inheritance, the first in Nora Roberts' Lost Brides Trilogy, you're going to fall right into the second book, The Mirror. Since I'm a fan of Roberts' trilogies, I was caught up in this one right from the beginning....
Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones
In her debut mystery, Kristi Jones takes us to a World War II theater we seldom read about, Algiers in North Africa. Set in 1943, Murder in the Ranks introduces Dorothy (Dottie) Lincoln, a squad leader in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The women are glorified...