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?
Whew! Made it through last week. Our weather here was ice, ice and more ice, with some snow piled up on it. The library was closed on Thursday and Friday last week, with a late opening on Saturday. We still have snow piled around town, but we survived without the...
Goodbye Again by Mariah Stewart
I liked Mariah Stewart's second Wyndham Beach novel, Goodbye Again, so much that I suggested it to all the women in my immediate family, but I did recommend that they start with the first book, An Invincible Summer. If you like women's fiction featuring mature women...
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
Mia P. Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries are not typical cozies. There's a depth and relevance to the series that is sometimes lacking in the genre. I'm not disparaging cozies because I read a number of them. I'm saying that Homicide and Halo-Halo deals with...