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
A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor
I'll admit Sarah Stewart Taylor's atmospheric depiction of Ireland stole my heart in her first Maggie D'arcy mystery, The Mountains Wild. Now, the fourth in the series, A Stolen Child, is a solid police procedural with plot twists to keep the reader and the police...
Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg, author of the Eve Ronin novels, takes us back to the same area of California for Malibu Burning, a fast-paced, sometimes humorous story of a con man on a collision course with an arson investigator and his new partner. October is fire season in...
“Missing in the Snow” by Ann Cleeves
Here's something a little different, a Shetland Short Story by Ann Cleeves. "Missing in the Snow" brings Jimmy Perez back to the Shetlands at Tosh's request. She wants his help in finding a missing author, a man who disappeared from the library. As far as anyone...