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
Fatal First Edition by Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay brings so many fun elements together in her latest Library Lover's Mystery, Fatal First Edition. There's a murder on a train with a closed group of suspects, a cameo appearance from Kate Carlisle's book restorer character, Brooklyn Wainwright and her...
The Sign of Four Spirits by Vicki Delany
I'm a fan of Vicki Delany's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries, and her amateur sleuth, Gemma Doyle. Although Gemma is on the periphery of the scene when the murder occurs in The Sign of Four Spirits, she works her unofficial investigation, using her knowledge of...
Cursed to Death by Bill Crider
Bill Crider and Sheriff Dan Rhodes examine relationships in the third in the Dan Rhodes mystery series, Cursed to Death. Although I'm reading the series in order, I'm looking at the books so I can discuss more than Crider's great characters. If I was only to talk...