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
What Are You Reading?
Today is my last day of work in 2022. I'm lucky to be off then until Tuesday, January 3. I need that time off to put together my list of favorite books of 2022, and to compose the February Treasures in My Closet post. Even with time off, I don't have enough reading...
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....