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?
What are you reading this week? In between college basketball and football games, I’m reading Man Found Dead in Park, an illustrated novella written by Margaret Coel and illustrated by Phil Parks. I couldn’t even find a photo online, so the poor photo...
Q & A with Lawrence Kelter
Lawrence Kelter is the author of a surprising sequel. Back to Brooklyn is the sequel to a movie, “My Cousin Vinny”. He’s going to tell you how that all came about. Novelist Lawrence Kelter chats about writing BACK TO BROOKLYN, the literary sequel...
Death Comes to the School by Catherine Lloyd
Fans of old-fashioned mysteries, or stories that remind you of Georgette Heyer or Jane Austen, may appreciate this fifth book in the Kurland St. Mary Mystery series. .Death Comes to the School by Catherine Lloyd is a quiet story involving class differences and role...