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 Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
It's not easy to discuss a novel I loved, one that I sobbed over and stayed up to finish. Madeline Martin's novel of World War II is an homage to books and reading and the power of books. It's filled with characters I loved, and beloved ones who are lost in the course...
A Deadly Twist by Jeffrey Siger
Greece is just as beautiful as always in the eleventh book in Jeffrey Siger's Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mystery. But, as the title A Deadly Twist indicates, it's just as politically corrupt and dangerous as in the other books in the series. Crime reporter...
Cover Reveal – Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death
Oh, I've been waiting to share this cover of a forthcoming book published by Polis/Agora. It's not every day that you find a book describes as a "macabre cozy mystery". Here's the cover of Amitra Murry's Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death. ARYA WINTERS AND THE...