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
Sandie’s Corner – The Devil’s Bed by William Kent Krueger
While I finish my April Treasures in My Closet post, Sandie Herron has a review of William Kent Krueger's standalone, The Devil's Bed. It's twenty years old, but, hopefully, no one has seen fit to use "sensitivity readers" and redo the book. Thank you, Sandie. THE...
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac
E.C.R. Lorac provides clues right there in the title of her Golden Age mystery, These Names Make Clues, if you're clever enough to pick up on them. I wasn't. Fortunately, Chief Inspector Macdonald from Scotland Yard was on the scene when one of the murders...
Do I Know You? by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
Now that I've read the second romance by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, I have to go back and read their first one, The Roughest Draft. They handled the relationship beautifully in Do I Know You? Graham and Eliza Cutler have been married five years....