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
Author Interview – Carl Vonderau
I shouldn't be surprised when an author tells me what he read as a child, and the books turn out to be ones I remember fondly. Carl Vonderau's answer to that question jumped out at me. Today, I have an interview with Vanderau, author of a debut...
The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka
Although I often tell readers to go back and read the first in a series, Kristen Lepionka's The Stories You Tell, the third in the Roxane Weary series, is a fine starting point. However, her first book, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First...
Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly
Although Kate Hamilton, the amateur sleuth in Killer in the Carriage House, comes across as distracted, I was wondering if the author, Sheila Connolly, was distracted when she wrote this latest mystery. I know I had an ARC, so I won't mention errors I found in the...