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
What Are You Reading?
After I went to the Buckeye Book Fair on Saturday, the rest of the week has been quiet. I like days that I'm home and can read. I'm excited about the book I'm reading right now, Loreth Anne White's The Unquiet Bones. It's a cold case. Imagine if a classmate...
My Cousin Skinny by E.J. Copperman
What can be worse than returning home to a cousin's wedding, and facing a judgmental mother and older sister? For Sandy Moss, in E.J. Copperman's My Cousin Skinny, it's seeing the bride-to-be covered in blood while insisting she wants Sandy as her attorney. There...
Deus X by Stephen Mack Jones
I read Stephen Mack Jones' fourth August Snow mystery, Deus X, twice. It was just as good the second time around. Jones manages to tell an engrossing story dealing with organized religion while also handling found family in a violent, sometimes humorous account....