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 Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
If you read and loved Richard Osman's debut, The Thursday Murder Club, as I did, you'll be happy to see The Man Who Died Twice. The follow-up brings back the primary characters from the previous mystery. The story is just as witty, just as intriguing. And, we get to...
Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac is another of the British Library Crime Classics with an introduction by Martin Edwards. After I read and reviewed Checkmate to Murder by Lorac in March, I ordered the rest of her mysteries that are available in the British Library...
Jekyll & Hyde Inc. by Simon R. Green
I know Simon R. Green's Jekyll & Hyde Inc. is not what I normally read. There's something about Green's dark humor that sucks me into many of his books. And, as violent and gory as this book is, it's really about a good man striving to stay good in the worst...