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
Meg & Jo by Virginia Kantra
If you've never read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and you intend to, stop right now. With Meg & Jo, Virginia Kantra succeeds brilliantly in bringing the book into the 21st century while maintaining the spirit of the characters. There's still "reliable...
Treasures in My Closet – January 2020
Happy New Year! I'm not really rushing 2020, but it's time to kick off the January Treasures in My Closet. I've read a few of the mysteries already, so I can vouch for several of them. Here's to a Happy New Year of reading! The fourteenth book in the Lady Emily...
Murder Off the Page by Con Lehane
This is probably blasphemy, but I actually like Mike Cosgrove, the homicide cop in Con Lehane's latest book better than I like Raymond Ambler, the librarian. Ambler seems to live in his head too much in Murder Off the Page. As Cosgrove reminds him...