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
Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala
Before I get too far into the review of Mia P. Manansala's fifth Tita Rosie's Kitchen mystery, Guilt and Ginataan, let me mention that Ginataan is food cooked with coconut milk. Because the amateur sleuth, Lila Macapagal, is Filipino, and the co-owner of the...
A Merry Little Murder Plot by Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay's first Christmas book in the Library Lover's Mystery series, A Merry Little Murder Plot, manages to successfully incorporate the Christmas programs in Briar Creek, Connecticut, the library activities, and a murder mystery. And, it's fun with the...
Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs
A modern "New Woman", Miss Marigold Manners cleans up a house, a family, and two murders in Elizabeth Hobbs' historical mystery, Misery Hates Company. In 1894, after the death of both her parents due to influenza, Miss Marigold Manners learns they spent all the...