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?
I'm still enjoying evenings on the porch, watching lightning bugs, although I know it won't be for much longer. Linda and I are planning to go to the Columbus Book Festival one day this weekend. Other than that, it's been an easygoing week, hot outside, air...
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
I've been intrigued by Death as a character ever since I read Mort by Terry Pratchett. However, Ben Reeves' debut novel, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is certainly not funny. Reeves says he reads for language and voice and tone. His narrator, Death, in the...
It’s About Time by Carol J. Perry
I liked Carol J. Perry's Witch City Mysteries. She ended that series, and spun it off with It's About Time, the first Wicked Salem book. I won't be reading more of these. The main character, and her friends, are just too ridiculous. I found all of their antics, as...