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
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Don't expect another version of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club with We Solve Murders. In fact, it reminds me more of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age. We Solve Murders was a little slow in starting, but once Rosie D'Antonio stepped in, it picked...
I Dreamed of Falling by Julia Dahl
Julia Dahl's latest standalone, I Dreamed of Falling, is as dark as the cover. What do we really know about the people we love? And, what secrets are there in a small town? Roman Grady is the only reporter for a newspaper in a small Hudson Valley town. He covers...
Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg
Although Lee Goldberg's Ashes Never Lie is the second novel featuring his arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, the author manages to incorporate his other series characters, Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone, into this complex story. He adds a corpse at...