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
Bouchercon – Post 1
It was a terrific flight on Southwest on Wednesday, flying from Nashville to Baltimore, and then on to Raleigh. The first person I met at the hotel was Hank Phillippi Ryan, who was checking in when I was. I FINALLY met Kaye Wilkinson Barley, who was my...
The Big Chili by Julia Buckley
Julia Buckley launches her new series, The Big Chili, with a model cozy mystery. The comment "Murder held a whole town hostage to uncertainty and fear" exemplifies the spirit of the small town mystery in which the balance of the town is thrown off, and the amateur...
Devil of Delphi by Jeffrey Siger
I really should have talked about Jeffrey Siger's Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mysteries when Kristopher Zgorski, Dru Ann Love and I did the Triple Threat, but we could only pick five series. Maybe next time we do something similar I'll be able to add this...