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?
I hope you're all doing well this week. First, because so many of us are mystery/crime fiction readers, I want to share this article from Library Journal, "Crime and Comfort: 90 Mysteries for Our Times Promise Escape and Coziness / Mystery Preview 2021" by Melissa...
Legacy of Death by Judith Cutler
Judith Cutler's second Matthew Rowsley mystery, Legacy of Death, was a little too slow-paced for me. Rowsley and his wife, Harriet, alternate narration in this old-fashioned account of estate life in Victorian England. Thorncroft Estate in Shropshire, England has...
Murder in Galway by Carlene O’Connor
Let's face it. If the series says, "A Home To Ireland Mystery", and the title is Murder in Galway, I'll at least try the book. Carlene O'Connor doesn't disappoint in this descriptive mystery that takes an American to Galway, Ireland. Although Tara Meehan had never...