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
The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
I liked the premise of Melissa Larsen's novel, The Lost House, but she lost me with her protagonist. Agnes Glin was too troubled for me to appreciate her story. She's terrified, lonely, and an addict, not my kind of character. In 1979, long before she was born,...
Lights! Camera! Mayhem! by Jodi Taylor
It had been a while since I read one of Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's, so I went to her blog when I finished the sthort story (really a novella), Lights! Camera! Mayhem! I wasn't at all surprised to find that Terry Pratchett had referred a reader to her...
Irish Soda Bread Murder by Carlene O’Connor, et Al
I always look forward to the mystery collections by Carlene O'Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, and Liz Ireland. Their collections contain three novellas with a common theme, a holiday or a food. This time, it's Irish Soda Bread Murder in time for St. Patrick's Day. But, the...