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
Death Washes Ashore by Patricia Skalka
Here's an odd one for you. At the time I'm posting this, I'm not even sure of the release date, only that it's April. It's from The University of Washington Press, and, even the author's website did not yet list Patricia Skalka's sixth Dave Cubiak mystery, Death...
On an Outgoing Tide by Caro Ramsay
I'm going to be totally honest here. While I enjoyed Caro Ramsay's On an Outgoing Tide, I also felt completely lost at times. The book is the twelfth in an ongoing police procedural series set in Glasgow featuring Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, his partner...
What You Never Knew by Jessica Hamilton
Two sisters, one living and one dead, return to the scene of their childhood in Jessica Hamilton's debut, What You Never Knew. It turns out there's quite a bit the Bennett sisters, May and June, never knew. April Bennett always told her daughters she sold Avril...