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
Kevin’s Corner Annex: Private Eyes: Mystery, Crime and Mayhem
I always appreciate Kevin R. Tipple's contributions to this blog. He tries to add some variety. His comment about Private Eyes: Mystery, Crime and Mayhem was "This is one of those hybrid deals where it is a magazine, but the print version is more like a paperback....
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Vanishing Edge by Claire Kells
I'm attending a family wedding this weekend, so Kevin R. Tipple has the blog reviews. In fact, Kevin may have all of them until Thursday. We'll see. It depends what I find time to read as I face a couple deadlines. Thank you, Kevin! Just over three years ago,...
Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
While Winter's Gifts is a spin-off of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, it really reminds me more of Simon R. Green's Ishmael Jones mysteries. Neither is a bad thing in my opinion, a spin-off or a similarity to Green's series. FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds...