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 Tailor by Tim Sullivan
Darn, darn, darn. Now that we're caught up with the British publications of Tim Sullivan's DS George Cross mysteries, I have to wait a year for the next one. The Tailor is just what readers expect in this fabulous series. It has an impossible-seeming murder, the great...
Death at a Scottish Halloween by Lucy Connelly
When the Tartan Army was here in June, they made one thing clear. The Scots like to party as Lucy Connelly shows in her latest Scottish Isle mystery, Death at a Scottish Halloween. They may not actually celebrate Halloween, but the people of Sea Isle observe All...
Death on the Books by Victoria Gilbert
Somehow I missed one of the books in Victoria Gilbert's Blue Ridge Library mystery series, but I'm caught up now with her most recent one, Death on the Books. Although I had a few issues with this latest one, I still enjoy returning to the Taylorsford, Virginia...