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
Thomas Kies, Guest Author
I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do...
Jim Hanvey, Detective by Octavus Roy Cohen
Readers sometimes ask for mysteries without murder. Octavus Roy Cohen’s Jim Hanvey, Detective, fits the bill. The seven stories in the collection, first published in 1923, feature Jim Hanvey, who investigates con men and thieves. The stories originally...
Gone by Morning by Michele Weinstat Miller
Michele Weinstat Miller’s debut crime novel, Gone by Morning, was good enough that I gave it a starred review in my journal review. It has such a great twist as the ending. Just perfect. But, it’s a difficult book to summarize because there are multiple...