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
Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle
Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle
The seventeenth Coffehouse Mystery by Cleo Coyle, Shot in the Dark, was one of my favorites. It’s timely, and the authors are acutely aware of the relevance of social media in our daily lives. Fortunately, Sandie Herron enjoyed the book, too, because she had...
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows
It takes a little time to figure out what’s happening in Steve Burrows’ fourth Birder Murder Mystery, A Shimmer of Hummingbirds. I hadn’t read the previous books in the series, so I don’t know the relationships. Burrows won the 2015 Arthur...
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Lisa Genova is known for her fiction that involves people whose lives are changed by diseases that affect the brain – Alzheimer’s, left neglect brain disorder, autism, Huntington’s disease. Now, she takes on ALS with Every Note Played. While...