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 the Cat Dragged In by Miranda James
What the Cat Dragged In is Miranda James' fourteenth Cat in the Stacks mystery. After thirteen books in a series, some authors just seem to phone it in. However, this one just might be the best yet in the series. When Sean Harris told his father, Charlie, that he'd...
Vicki Delany, Guest Author
With Vicki Delany's busy writing schedule, we're lucky she had the time to write a piece for us. I know how popular her books are, and I jumped at the chance to introduce her new series. Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a...
Death in Castle Dark by Veronica Bond
Another reader commented that they weren't sure Veronica Bond could sustain a series with the Dinner and a Murder Mystery theme. I'm not sure either, but I found the first in the series, Death in Castle Dark, to be a fun, engaging book with a charming amateur sleuth....