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
Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn's second book featuring her retired spies, Kills Well with Others, I preferred the first in the series, Killers of a Certain Age. It's not the author's fault that I've read so many books since then that feature senior sleuths or spies....
Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb
J.D. Robb's Bonded in Death is the sixtieth book in her "In Death" series, but it may be the best in the series. She's still at the top of her game, bringing Lieutenant Eve Dallas a crime from the past. When Giovanni Rossi was killed in a limo in New York City, the...
Stone Certainty by Simon R. Green
The Holy Terrors are back in Simon R. Green's second mystery to feature them, but I found Stone Certainty a little disappointing. There's a line in the book that usually describes Green's books, "Hip-deep in sudden death, with supernatural elements." The deaths came...