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
An Empty Grave by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
A year or two ago, my sister suggested I try a mystery about a PI who was a former Ohio State quarterback. She hadn't read any of Andrew Welsh-Huggins' books, but she saw a synopsis on a list of Ohio authors. I finally had a chance to read the seventh in the Andy...
Wolf Kill by Cary J. Griffith
Author Cary J. Griffith originally published this book in 2013 as Wolves. Now, it has been reedited and rebranded as Wolf Kill, the first in a four book Sam Rivers mystery series. I don't know what Griffith and his editor, Mary Logue, changed, but this is a...
The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt
The last book I read that used language so beautifully, so sparingly, and created such a vivid picture of a place, was James Anderson's The Never-Open Desert Diner. Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills takes readers into rural Kentucky with a hero whose story will...