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’m reading flight schedules, and whatever book is next up on my iPad today. If everything went right, my sister and I are flying back to Columbus today, and then I’m driving home tomorrow. As you know, I’ve been in New York City this week. My...
Have You Heard? William Kent Krueger’s Manitou Canyon
With the news that the nineteenth book in William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series, Fox Creek, will be released in August, I thought it was time to share another of Sandie Herron’s reviews of the audiobooks in the series. Manitou Canyon is the...
The Match by Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben brings back some of my favorite characters from The Boy from the Woods, Wilde, attorney Hester Crimstein, and Hester’s grandson, Matthew, in The Match, a disturbing novel that takes on social media. Wilde, found in the woods thirty years earlier,...