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
Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi
Grave Beginnings is the first in R.R. Virdi's Grave Report urban fantasy series. And, that cover is just perfect for a protagonist who jumps from body to body as he needs to in the series, so he'll have a different face in each book. If it sounds odd, it's perfect...
Sandie’s Corner – Long Lost by Linda Castillo
Between my review deadline and Sunday's Tony Awards, I haven't had time to finish another book. I did go back and pick up an older title from one of the authors in the anthology Heroic Hearts. So, I should have a review of an urban fantasy on Wednesday. In the...
Heroic Hearts edited by Jim Butcher & Kerrie L. Hughes
Every once in a while, I love to pick up an urban fantasy. Quite often, it's because Jim Butcher, the author of The Dresden Files, is connected to the book. In the case of Heroic Hearts, some of the biggest names in the urban fantasy world have stories in this...