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 Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle
Jack Shepard is back! Let's face it. While the blurb says "Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up", many of us who read Cleo Coyle's Haunted Bookshop mysteries love Jack, the ghost of a private investigator killed in 1949 on the site of...
City of Dark Corners by Jon Talton
I loved Jon Talton's standalone, City of Dark Corners. Before you jump to get it at your local library or bookstore, though, you need to know it's set in Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun in 1933. I lived in the Valley for 8 1/2 years, and I recognize the streets and...
Thirty-One Bones by Morgan Cry
Maybe it's my dark sense of humor, but Mother's Day seems an appropriate day to post the review of a book in which a dead mother leaves behind a mess for her estranged daughter. Gordon Brown, writing as Morgan Cry, takes readers to Spain's Costa Blanca in the crime...