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
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
I wanted to love Vanessa Lillie's Blood Sisters. It features a Cherokee woman working as an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Narragansett land in Rhode Island. Lillie herself is Cherokee, and lives in Rhode Island. I liked the book, but I didn't...
Cheap Trills by Wendall Thomas
Monkeys and bats and snakes, oh my! Of course a new Cyd Redondo mystery would include all kinds of animals to terrorize the travel agent. But, Cyd's off to Bali on a rescue mission in Wendall Thomas' Cheap Trills. Whether she's trying to rescue her mother or...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – No Accident by Steven F. Havill
Kevin Tipple and I are both fans of Steven F. Havill's Posadas County mysteries. I'll admit, I preferred the earlier ones in the series. That often happens. No Accident is the 25th in the series. Thank you, Kevin, for another review with no spoilers. No Accident: A...