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?
This week, if you're even able to read, I hope you found an escape. I'll admit yesterday was a terrible day for me. So, I picked up something that will have humor, a mystery, and some Christmas. I'm going to need that kind of book for the next four years. I...
Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
A month ago, I reviewed Paula Munier's The Night Woods, and mentioned that the theme was related to The Odyssey. Here's a second mystery, with an even larger connection, Christina Lynch's unusual Pony Confidential. I'm not crazy when I say how good this mystery...
The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
Three authors walk into a bar. That's how The Author's Guide to Murder really begins, although it's not the opening sentence of this clever satire of the writing community with its jokes, puns, send up of mystery and romance tropes, and, of course, murder. The...