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
Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn's Kills Well with Others, it wasn't as fresh as the first book, Killers of a Certain Age. While the idea of four female retired assassins was new at the time of the first book, it seems there's an abundance of these titles now. For...
Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty
I discovered Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy books long before The Chain made him popular worldwide. Hang on St. Christopher is another intriguing book set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. If Detective Inspector Sean Duffy can hang on for almost two years,...
If It Isn’t One Thing… by Steven F. Havill
If you like small town police procedurals, but haven't been reading Steven F. Havill's Posadas County Mysteries, you're missing out. If It Isn't One Thing... is a carefully plotted mystery featuring Undersheriff Estelle Reyes Guzman and her understaffed team. As...