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
Mistletoe and Murder by Connie Berry
Mistletoe and Murder is a novella in the Kate Hamilton series by Connie Berry. The author refers to it as book 4.5 in the series since it's a novella. I enjoyed the story and the return to familiar characters. So, I'll save my complaint for the end of the review....
The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
In one weekend, I read two Christmas novellas that quoted Dickens' Christmas Carol. Perhaps it's appropriate that stories of people haunted by the past would quote from that story. It isn't until part 2 of Peter Swanson's The Christmas Guest that the narrator...
Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji
While the blurb for Ritu Mukerji's historical mystery, Murder by Degrees, suggested it was for readers of Jacqueline Winspear or Charles Todd, I thought of Maddie Day's Quaker Midwife series. Both authors write about women in medical fields in the U.S. during the...