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 Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn by Amber A. Logan
I'm going to admit right up front that I read Amber Logan's The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn because she was on a panel I moderated. And, I probably would have gotten more out of the novel if I had read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I know I missed...
Flight Risk By Cherie Priest
Did you catch Cherie Priest's first Booking Agents mystery, Grave Reservations, when it came out last year? Leda Foley, a Seattle travel agent and sometimes psychic returns with Homicide Detective Grady Merritt in another off-beat story, Flight Risk.ed ab It's been...
Have You Heard? – Cleo Coyle’s The Ghost and the Stolen Tears
I'm a big fan of Cleo Coyle's ghostly PI Jack Shepherd, so when Sandie Herron mentioned a review of the audiobook of The Ghost and the Stolen Tears, I took it. If you like paranormal mysteries, I hope you know Jack and Pen! The Ghost and the Stolen TearsWritten by...