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?
The weather has been great, and I enjoyed my trip home for my mother's birthday. I know how much she enjoyed it. Her three daughters were home. Her granddaughter came to visit on Friday evening. And, two of her "adopted" daughters, my sisters' best friends, spent...
Mud Season by Susan Stewart Taylor
Susan Stewart Taylor's first Bethany, Vermont mystery, Agony Hill, is scheduled for release on August 6. In the meantime, she introduces one of her main characters, as well as the town of Bethany, in her short story "Mud Season". Taylor, the author of the Maggie...
Hope to Die by Cara Hunter
I can't praise Cara Hunter's sixth DI Adam Fawley crime novel enough. Hope to Die is everything a police procedural should be, with a solid team of police officers, a thoughtful lead, and a complex case that contains twists even up until the last chapter. The...