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?
The weekend was busy, and this coming weekend will be as well. I needed the down time in the middle. Saturday, I had the library's book tasting, and then went to Linda's. Linda and Kevin's oldest son was in town with his daughter, so Mom and Christie came down to...
A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
When they say "mean streets", it means Minneapolis/St. Paul, at least where "Mac" McKenzie is concerned. The first of David Housewright's Rushmore McKenzie novels, A Hard Ticket Home, sucked me in. I'm happy to say there are twenty-two more books in the series. Mac...
Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams
I enjoyed Denise Williams' contemporary romance, The Re-Do List, enough that I picked up Love and Other Flight Delays at the library. It's a collection of three novellas all centered around the same airport. It's light and fluffy, and the stories are so short...