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 Attraction Distraction by Jenn McKinlay
Let's start the review of Jenn McKinlay's romcom, The Attraction Distraction, by saying that cover has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline, except there's a man and a woman in the book. There are serious Classics scholars on a hunt for a treasure on a...
The Choice by Nora Roberts
What can I say? Nora Roberts' The Choice is a magnificent conclusion to The Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy. It's light versus dark, good versus evil. It represents every final battle in fantasy literature. Breen Siobhan Kelly, Daughter of Dragons. "Daughter of the...
Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire
There's a meme going around on Facebook that mentions words often used in mystery reviews, and then says what those words "really" mean. When I say that Ann Claire's first Christie Bookshop Mystery, Dead and Gondola, is charming, I mean that the cozy mystery has...