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
The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton
When Margaret Mizushima and Paula Munier blurb a book, it's natural to expect a mystery featuring a dog. You'd be right with The Finders, Jeffrey B. Burton's action-packed series debut. It's an intense, sometimes graphic, novel about a serial killer. Even...
What You Don’t See by Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark's debut PI novel, Broken Places, was an award nominee. I spotted it at the time, and said fans of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone will welcome Cass Raines. The second book in the series, Borrowed Time, went on to win the 2020 Sue Grafton Award,...
Find Me by Anne Frasier
I'm an outlier. While psychological thrillers have been popular in the last couple years, I'm not a fan. I don't like unreliable narrators. And, I am not interested in serial killer novels that get inside the mind of a killer. Give me a traditional mystery or a...