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
Buried Memories by Simon R. Green
"Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones." Ishmael Jones is an alien whose starship crashed in a small English country town in 1963. For nine previous books, Simon R. Green has sent Jones to chase monsters and mysteries as Jones' own past slowly revealed itself to him. He's...
A Short Break
While I have more reviews from Sandie Herron, I'm saving them since I just used several. Instead, I'm taking a short break while I finish reading for a journal. I know this is unusual, but I had two deadlines in four days. I had to read four books so I could...
The Keening by Anne Emery
I'll be honest. As much as I enjoy Irish history, Anne Emery's historical mystery, The Keening was slow going. However, readers who appreciate Cora Harrison's Burren mysteries, set in 16th century Ireland, might want to try this mystery with two timeframes, the...