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
Have You Heard? Juliet Blackwell’s Magical Match
Today is release date for Juliet Blackwell’s tenth Witchcraft Mystery, Bewitched and Betrothed. I just received a copy and haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m looking forward to it. In the meantime, Sandie Herron has a teaser, the review...
Gone Too Long by Lori Roy
Lori Roy is the Edgar Award winning author of Bent Road and Let Me Die in His Footsteps. Her latest novel, Gone Too Long, is a creepy, disturbing account of a young girl and a community held hostage by the Ku Klux Klan. It’s a compelling, issue-oriented...
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicty McLean
Who is responsible when three sisters go missing? It’s a question that lingers in the debut novel The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean. Even at the end of the story, it still haunts Tikka Malloy. 1992 is the summer of a loss of innocence in...