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
Betrayal on the Bowery by Kate Belli
As much as I liked Kate Belli's debut Gilded Gotham mystery, Deception by Gaslight, I did say she was caught up a little too much in details in that first book. I can't say that about Betrayal on the Bowery. The historical details are still there, but Belli plunges...
Mango, Mambo, and Murder by Raquel V. Reyes
I love a cozy mystery debut that's a little different with characters that are not the stereotypical white middle-class owners of a craft shop or bookstore. Raquel V. Reyes introduces Cuban-American Miriam Quinones-Smith, a food anthropologist, a wife and mother,...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – 21 Immortals
Kevin Tipple rounds out my vacation week with 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders by Ruzlan Mohr Noor. I'm so glad this was one of his picks for the first in a series. I bought a copy of the book, and have never had a chance to pick it up. Thank...