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?
Thursday, my favorite day of the week, thanks to all of you. How many of you are snowed in, and expecting more? I'm lucky. We're getting the cold from that polar vortex this weekend, but we haven't had much snow. I feel sorry for all of you in the east. You're...
The Silenced Women by Frederick Weisel
The Silenced Women is Frederick Weisel's first Violent Crime Investigating Team mystery. It's a debut, a police procedural, and the first in a new series. Sold me! When a woman’s body is found in the largest park in Santa Rosa, California, it brings back all of...
Best Laid Plans by Gwen Florio
Gwen Florio debuts the Nora Best mystery series with Best Laid Plans. It features a woman over fifty as the protagonist. She tells the story, and I think readers will find themselves rooting for her. She’s not quite as confident as she pretends, but she “fakes it...