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
To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters
Reminder to myself. NEVER read someone else's review before writing one of the same book. While I enjoyed Martha Waters' To Love and to Loathe, her follow-up to To Have and to Hoax, one reviewers was so angry about a plot point that she went on about it. Frankly, I...
Clare Whitfield, author Interview
I don't think I ever had an author tell me one of my interview questions made them emotional. But, Clare Whitfield is a debut author. Soon she'll be experienced at interviews, and a hardened interviewee. (I'm happy to have caught her early on while questions are...
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield
Remember that title, People of Abandoned Character. There's really no one in Clare Whitfield's debut historical mystery that I would care to know, not even the narrator. However, the more I thought about the book, the more I realized it did just exactly what the...