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
Long Weekend
I've been reading all weekend, but yesterday I took a little time off for PBS and an August release. Here's something you don't know about me. John Deere tractors are favorites in my family; books and real and toy tractors. So, when I saw PBS was showing a program...
City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories by Edward D. Hoch
If you picked up yesterday's collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, you might want to skip City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories by Edward D. Hoch. I'm glad I tried them, but they're much slower paced and not as interesting as the Holmes stories. Supposedly,...
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
I took a page from Jeff' Meyerson's book and read a collection of Edward D. Hoch's short stories. I've read individual ones before, but twelve stories about one subject is better than the individual ones. As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I admire Hoch's voice with The...