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
Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman has a gift for descriptive writing about the Southwest. She may have inherited her father's characters, Leaphorn and Chee, but she took that inheritance and made it her own. She puts her own spin on the descriptions, the characters, and the crimes....
Book Chat – June Mysteries from Penguin’s Berkley Prime Crime & Obsidian
Sorry that there are no cats this month. Jinx was napping. However, here's the list of titles from the book chat. Truffled to Death - Kathy Aarons (2nd Chocolate Covered Mystery) A Fatal Chapter - Lorna Barrett (9th Booktown Mystery, hardcover) Fat Cat Spreads Out...
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
I've been a Mary Kay Andrews fan since the early '90s when she was writing mysteries under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck. And, as much as I liked those books, and have enjoyed some of her standalones written under Andrews, she's moved up a notch with Beach...