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
A Gruesome Discovery by Cora Harrison
Here's a series I've read from the very beginning, Cora Harrison's Reverend Mother series set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s. I find the history of Ireland fascinating, and everything I've learned about history in recent years comes from fiction. A Gruesome...
Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy
How many of you remember that Ngaio Marsh's Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn trained as a diplomat before joining Scotland Yard? If you do, it won't surprise you that he's working undercover in World War II in New Zealand. Money in the Morgue is an unfinished...
The Second Goodbye by Patricia Smiley
Repeat after me, "I wish I had read the first book in the series, but you don't have to do that to read this book." It's become a mantra. Sometimes, you just can't start at the beginning. Detective Davie Richards is the featured detective in Patricia Smiley's Pacific...