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
The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
Bundle up and stay warm as you read the third Detective Matthew Venn novel by Ann Cleeves. The Raging Storm takes readers to Greystone in Devon, a storm-tossed coastal community where townspeople volunteer to work on lifeboats to save struggling sailors. This time,...
Death by a Thousand Sips by Gretchen Rue
While I enjoy the Witches' Brew cozy mystery series by Gretchen Rue, amateur sleuth Phoebe Winchester irritated me at times in the second book, Death by a Thousand Sips. I can accept an amateur sleuth who is a suspect, and wants to clear her name, so she...
Murder Off Stage by Mary Miley
I hadn't read Mary Miley's Roaring Twenties Mysteries, although I have read her Mystic's Accomplice series, set in Chicago in the same time period, the 1920s. Murder Off Stage is the fifth in her Roaring Twenties series featuring Jessie Beckett, a former Vaudeville...