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?
I went up to my Mom's for Mother's Day weekend last week. Had a nice visit with her, as always, and visited with my youngest sister, Christie, on Friday. We planned our next family trip, made our hotel reservations. We're going to Shipshewana, Indiana at the end of...
Mrs, Presumed Dead by Simon Brett
In the second Mrs. Pargeter mystery, Mrs, Presumed Dead, Brett's perceptive amateur sleuth moves from a seaside retirement home to an executive home. She's not sure Smithy's Loam is where she wants to live, but she gives herself six months to discover whether the...
Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas
It's been more than a few years since I read one of Sandra Dallas' books, although she wrote two books I still remember and recommend, The Persian Pickle Club and Tallgrass. In fact, Dallas' notes say she thought she had retired from writing. Instead, she wrote...