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
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb
I would have expected that J.D. Robb's Encore in Death, a police procedural set in the world of Broadway and Hollywood, would have been one of my favorites in the series. But, it wasn't quite up to the tension of Desperation in Death, the previous book in the...
Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan
I don't know if this is a compliment or not, but I certainly intended it as one. I found myself so caught up in the relationships and characters in Ellie Brannigan's Murder at an Irish Castle, that I forgot there had been a suspicious death, and there was reason...
Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings
It seems this is the season for "Agony Aunt" mysteries. Although Mary Winters' March release, Murder in Postscript is set twenty years earlier than Anastasia Hastings' Of Manners and Murder, both books feature young women tasked with writing advice columns in...