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 Bookstore Keepers” by Alice Hoffman
"The Bookstore Keepers" is the third short story in Alice Hoffman's Once Upon a time Bookshop Series. I reviewed "The Bookstore Sisters" last August, https://bit.ly/3IPvnfI. A week later, I reviewed "The Bookstore Wedding", https://bit.ly/3IMW0Cc. I think "The...
Throwing Shade by Deborah Wilde
I don't know when I've had so much fun reading a book. Maybe when I read John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society a couple years ago. But, Deborah Wilde's Throwing Shade is nothing like the science fiction novel. Think shape-shifting wolves, vampires and...
Writers and Liars by Carol Goodman
So many authors put their own twist on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. In Writers and Liars, Carol Goodman sets her novel on a Greek Island, brings in a group of authors who were there fifteen years earlier, and provides a Greek mythology background....