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
Fourteen Years and Counting
Happy Anniversary to all of us! Fourteen years ago today, I started Lesa’s Book Critiques. It wasn’t called that at the time. It was originally called “Nikki’s World”. After I had reviewed for a while, Maddee James suggested I needed a...
Scones and Scoundrels by Molly MacRae
If you haven’t read Molly MacRae’s first Highland Bookshop mystery, Plaid and Plagiarism, it might take a little time to become familiar with her amateur sleuths in the second book. Scones and Scoundrels takes readers to Inversgail, Scotland, where...
What Are You Reading? – Part 2
As promised, I’m going to use Thursday and Friday to post lists of favorites from those who regularly comment on Thursday’s What Are You Reading? post. If you’re looking for this week’s contest, check the previous post. I’ll still host...

