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
A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette
Zac Bissonnette's debut mystery, A Killing in Costumes, is whimsical, nostalgic, and a little bittersweet at times. He introduces a character duo who can take on the world together, a sympathetic pair that the reader wants to see succeed, whether they're operating...
An Interview with Zac Bissonnette
Today, I'm interviewing Zac Bissonnette. His debut cozy mystery, A Killing in Costumes, will be released tomorrow, August. 9 from Crooked Lane Books. It's the first Hollywood Treasures book. That's all I'm going to say about the book because Zac will answer...
Bark to the Future by Spencer Quinn
"Do you think we go through high school in an intense fog?" Heck, yes. That's the only way most of us can survive high school. In the thirteenth Chet and Bernie mystery, Bark to the Future, Bernie discovers most of what he remembers from high school is wrong. Chet...