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
Have You Heard? – A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Blackwell
Sandie Herron caught my comment that I was reading Juliet Blackwell's A Toxic Trousseau, and she reminded me that she had reviewed the audio book. Thanks, Sandie. Here's her review of the last Witchcraft Mystery. A TOXIC TROUSSEAU ...
Where I’ve Been
No video today. Instead, I'm going to invite you to a couple blogs where I've been spending time this weekend. I've raved about my friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley before. She's my roommate for mystery conferences and even in Paris. We're already planning Bouchercon in...
The Irish Pub by James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury
What better book for St. Patrick's Day than The Irish Pub by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury? Fennell is the photographer of this gorgeous book with 201 color illustrations. And, Bunbury is the historian and writer who tells the story of a representative thirty-nine...


