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
Halloween Cupcake Murder
Don't touch that cupcake! Or, I should say, don't touch that cupcake if it gets close to Halloween. Three authors , Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry offer their amateur sleuths the chance to celebrate Halloween, despite a cupcake of death in Halloween...
The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell
The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell marks the debut of the Crescent Cove queer cozy mystery series. As with any cozy series, it introduces the amateur sleuth, the setting of the series, and explains how the main character ended up in that town. I have to admit...
Fadeaway Joe by Hugh Lessig
Hugh Lessig's debut crime novel, Fadeaway Joe, introduces an unlikely duo, and an unreliable narrator not easily forgotten. In fact, it's an entire cast of suspicious characters. At sixty-four, Joe Pendergast isn't willing to give up his career working for Maxie...