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
Fallen by Linda Castillo
If Linda Castillo has ever had a weak Kate Burkholder novel, Fallen isn't it. From the first time Burkholder, police chief in Painters Mill, Ohio, sees the victim's body, this case strikes a little too close to home. Like Kate, Rachael Schwartz left the Amish...
Fatal Family Ties by S.C. Perkins
If you follow S.C. Perkins' Ancestry Detective series, I'm sure you've noticed the clever way the publisher chooses to illustrate the reference area for genealogist Lucy Lancaster. It's obvious that Fatal Family Ties deals with the American Civil War. Lancaster, a...
Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
Here's another one of those beautiful books I cried over, so if you don't want to read about a book that takes your heart apart several times, and tries to mend it, a book about love and death, food, music, poetry and Shakespeare, you might as well skip my comments...