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 we all had a better week weather-wise than last week. It doesn’t sound as if the weather has been as crazy. Ours is a little chilly for us, in the low thirties in the morning, but we’re supposed to warm up next week. It has been good weather to...
Wendall Thomas’ Cyd Redondo
Have you “met” Cyd Redondo yet? Wendall Thomas’ creation, Cyd is a travel agent for Redondo Travel. Or, as author James Ziskin said, “One brilliantly sexy disaster of a globetrotting travel agent”. Cyd has appeared in three mysteries....
Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas
I’m not even sure I can summarize Wendall Thomas’ Fogged Off properly. The third Cyd Redondo mystery is a fast-paced escapade with so many seemingly unrelated incidents that finally fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. And, Cyd. She’s a...

