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
Smoke and Mirrors by M.E. Hilliard
M.E. Hilliard wraps up a four-book story arc with Smoke and Mirrors, but leaves a hint for the next book. Librarian Greer Hogan has been hunting for answers as to her husband's murder four years earlier, a storyline that began with The Unkindness of Ravens. Now,...
Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver
I didn't read the first in John Copenhaver's Nightingale Trilogy, The Savage Kind, and it isn't necessary to have that background before reading Hall of Mirrors. However, it wouldn't hurt to meet Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson in the previous book when they...
The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman
Katharine Schellman's third Nightingale mystery, The Last Note of Warning, is as gripping as the previous two in the series. The books all capture the atmosphere and grittiness of life for the working class in 1920s New York City. There's glamour in the underground...