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
An Interview with John McMahon
John McMahon is the debut author of “The Good Detective,” a fast-paced new thriller that introduces Detective P.T. Marsh. Detective Marsh is a hardened police detective barely getting by—and drinking hard—in Mason Falls, Georgia. Not too long ago, Marsh was a...
Murder at the Palace by Margaret Dumas
If you enjoy Jeff Cohen’s mysteries involving films, or his ones with ghosts, and the humor in those books, you might want to try Margaret Dumas’ first Movie Palace mystery, Murder at the Palace. Along with the mystery, there are summaries and...
Read Herring Hunt by V. M. Burns
The second Mystery Bookshop mystery by V.M. Burns, Read Herring Hunt, was as delightful as the first. Yes, it’s not difficult to spot the killer in these books. But, Burns’ combination of a current mystery, and the text of a historical cozy is an...