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 Quiet LIbrarian by Allen Eskens
Allen Eskens' standalone, The Quiet Librarian, is not an easy book to read with its descriptions of violence and war in Bosnia. But, like The Life We Bury, it's a book we should read. In 1995, Nura Divjak was a Muslim teenager living in Bosnia with her family until...
How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson
Kate Jackson's How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel is amusing at times. Anyone who reads the Golden Age Classics from Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, John Dickson Carr, and other authors will recognize the situations. Jackson's book not only warns readers how to...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets
I have a full week of my own reviews coming up, but wanted to share Kevin Tipple's review of Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets by Christopher Farnsworth. It's the latest book in the Jesse Stone series. Thank you, Kevin. Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets: A Jesse...