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
Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh
It's sometimes fun to read a romance trilogy, but not always necessary. Scandal Takes the Stage is the second in Eva Leigh's trilogy, The Wicked Quills of London. I just happened to pick it up. I might go back and read the first in the historical romance series,...
The Reluctant Countess by Eloisa James
Eloisa James is one of my favorite historical romance authors. I loved the first in her Would-Be Wallflowers series, last year's How to Be a Wallflower with an American hero and an heiress to a commode fortune. Jake and Cleo are back in this year's The Reluctant...
Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy
Death in Heels is Kitty Murphy's first Dublin Drag Mystery. I'll admit right up front that it wasn't the drag queens I had trouble with; it was the protagonist, Fi McKinnery. Although the drag community at TRASH, a Dublin drag club had a number of names that were...