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?
Well, last night I should have been at the Bexley Public Library where Gramercy Books hosted Connie Berry, author of A Grave Deception, the new Kate Hamilton mystery. But, the weather was lousy with rain and wind, and that's not fun to drive in at night. So, I'll...
Who Killed Father Christmas edited by Martin Edwards
Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries is another collection of Christmas short stories edited by Martin Edwards. It's part of the British Library Crime Classics. Edwards always manages to inform with the brief biographies of the authors while...
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
I'm glad Aubrey Hamilton talked me into reading Charles Finch's first Charles Lenox mystery, A Beautiful Blue Death. It was a finalist for the 2007 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. I had read a recent one in the series, but I never started at the beginning. It's...