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
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries, ed. by Martin Edwards
I love the cover of Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries. It's one of the most recent collections from British Library Crime Classics. As always, Martin Edwards edited the collection, and wrote the introduction to this anthology of stories involving the...
Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead
If you're a fan of locked-room mysteries or Golden Age ones, you might want to try Tom Mead's debut, Death and the Conjuror. His mystery is a tribute to John Dickson Carr, and all those masters of the locked-room puzzles. It's evident he's a fan as his amateur...
Just the Way You Are by Beth Moran
Thanks to Kaye Wilkinson Barley for introducing me to Beth Moran's Just the Way You Are. This novel was just right, a positive, uplifting story of a young woman learning to love herself. And, along the way, she discovered she loved herself the most when she was...