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 Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith
I know I’m in a minority of crime fiction readers. This was my first novel by Alexander McCall Smith. And, unless I receive another one to review, The Department of Sensitive Crimes will be my last. The slow pace, and the story in which very little...
Reading in Bed by Brian Doyle
In between mysteries, essays are just what I need. Brian Doyle’s collection, Reading in Bed, was entertaining and interesting for someone who is a reader. I bought it for several friends who are writers as well because there is so many ideas in this book with...
Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks brings back Jane Prescott, a ladies’ maid in the early twentieth century in New York, in Death of a New American. The first in the series, A Death of No Importance, was one of Library Journal’s top ten mysteries of 2018. While...