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
Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch
I hadn't read any of the previous Charles Lenox mysteries by Charles Finch. Now that I've read his ninth, Home by Nightfall, I regret missing the the previous books. At the same time, Finch makes it remarkably easy to pick up the series at this point. It's an...
Winners and An Ashton Lee Autographed Book Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the autographed copies of Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day. They're going to: Teresa G. of Burlington, NC; Dorothy M. of Bothell, WA; Sandy O. from Milford, OH; and Mona B. of Fort Worth, TX. The books are going out in the mail...
Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman
Our library classified Laura Anne Gilman's Silver on the Road as science fiction. Make no mistake about it. This intense novel launches a compelling epic fantasy series, a series that could be called a fantasy western. In fact, this is book one in The Devil's West...