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
What Are You Reading?
What Are You Reading?
You’re going to have to help me out today. I’m not far enough into anything to claim that I’m reading it. We’ll see what happens. I am taking a book back to the library. There are people waiting for it, and I just haven’t had time....
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
Abir Mukherjee follows up the success of his debut novel, A Rising Man, with another richly detailed mystery set in 1920s India. And, for all of us who didn’t read the first mystery, there’s no problem in picking up the story of Captain Sam Wyndham and...
Date with Malice by Julia Chapman
Date with Malice by Julia Chapman
I’ll date myself by saying the duo in this book will remind you of “Moonlighting”. Julia Chapman’s Date with Malice, the second in a series, is a suspenseful, humorous mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales community of Bruncliffe. You might not...