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
January Treasures in My Closet
I have a dozen books to talk about today, January releases. I hope you find a couple you want to read. Let me know what I might have missed. Wes Browne's They All Fall the Same is a violent novel set in Kentucky. Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the...
Buried Lies by Steven Tingle
Once again, inept private detective Davis Reed gets caught up in an iffy investigation in Cruso, North Carolina in Steven Tingle's Buried Lies. It's a good thing Davis has a couple disreputable friends, Deputy Dale Johnson and his cousin, Floppy. And, Floppy is...
Rhys Bowen at The Poisoned Pen
I debated this week. There were two authors I wanted to talk about who appeared at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in the last week. In the end, I decided to go with Rhys Bowen, author of the latest Royal Spyness novel, We Three Queens. Why? It was because of my...