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
What Are You Reading?
It's the third week of the month, so I'm on deadline for Library Journal. I read four books over the weekend to review for them, and I'm finishing the last book today. That means I don't have a book to discuss this week. I read all of those books, but reviews will...
Graveyard Fields by Steven Tingle
In Steven Tingle's debut, Graveyard Fields, he takes an inept cop turned equally incompetent private investigator, stomps him into the ground, and turns all of his actions into a tragic comedy. I don't know when I felt so frustrated with a character, and ended up...
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O'Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don't hesitate to pick it up if you haven't read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger himself said the...