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
It’s About Time by Carol J. Perry
I liked Carol J. Perry's Witch City Mysteries. She ended that series, and spun it off with It's About Time, the first Wicked Salem book. I won't be reading more of these. The main character, and her friends, are just too ridiculous. I found all of their antics, as...
Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney
If Elizabeth Penney's haunted Ravensea Castle isn't for you, maybe you'd prefer a cozy series set in a Cambridge Bookshop. Chapter and Curse takes an American librarian and her mother back to her mother's hometown in a small village called Hazelhurst. Molly Kimball's...
Long Weekend
I've been reading all weekend, but yesterday I took a little time off for PBS and an August release. Here's something you don't know about me. John Deere tractors are favorites in my family; books and real and toy tractors. So, when I saw PBS was showing a program...