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
Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries by Edward D. Hoch
I wasn't wrong in thinking that Edward D. Hoch was known for his short stories. In fact, he wrote over 950 of them, some with series characters. Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries contains stories featuring two of those characters. Most of the stories...
Frozen Detective by Amanda Flower
I wonder where Amanda Flower would have taken the characters of the Piper and Porter cozy mystery series if Hallmark Publishing hadn't closed down. Frozen Detective follows Dead-End Detective, the mystery that introduced private detective Darby Piper and her partner...
Haunted by the Past by Simon R. Green
As much as I enjoy Ishmael Jones, I think Simon R. Green's Haunted by the Past will be the last book I read in the series. The last couple books both felt as if Green was reaching for ideas that just didn't come. In 1963, a spaceship crashed in England, killing...