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
Kindred Crimes by Janet Dawson
I have a new addiction, Janet Dawson's Jeri Howard PI novels. Kindred Crimes is the first in the series, winner of the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First PI contest. The book came out in 1990, and went on to be nominated for the Anthony,...
The Things We Keep by Janet Dawson
Janet Dawson's The Things We Keep is the kind of private investigator novel I'm always hoping to read. I don't know why I missed the first in the series, Kindred Crimes, when it came out in 1990. It won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America best...
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane's last novel, Since We Fell, came out in 2017. He smashes that silence with Small Mercies, the most powerful novel I've read since S.A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears. In fact, any book group that chooses to pair these two unforgettable novels will have...