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
Hide by Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark's Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones
With that title, I really should save Darynda Jones' A Hard Day for a Hangover for the day after New Year's. I have a number of reviews coming up, though, and I'm working on a couple right now. So, it's a good time to fill in with one of Kevin Tipple's reviews....
Murder She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle by Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran
I'm sure you can tell by the title, Murder She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle, that mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is heading to Ireland, with the assistance of Terrie Farley Moran. It's Northern Ireland, with stops in Belfast and Bushmills. Moran blends...