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
The Delivery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
If you’re looking for books with non-stop action, you can’t go wrong with Andrew Welsh-Huggins’ Mercury Carter thrillers. He follows the successful book, The Mailman, with Merc’s latest adventures in The Delivery. Carter was once a US Postal...
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick
I was wrong about The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Josephine Leslie who wrote under R.A. Dick. I hadn’t read the book, although I was a big fan of the TV series with Edward Mulhare and Hope Lange who won an Emmy Award for her role. I own the movie, so I need to...
“Murder at Martingale Manor” by Jodi Taylor
Ten years ago, I picked Jodi Taylor’s first Chronicles of St. Mary’s book, Just One Damn Thing After Another, as one of my favorite books of 2016. Taylor was one of my discoveries that year. She had already written 7.6 titles (books and short stories)...