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 have the feeling I haven't done a lot of reading this week. I can tell you I took the book Bibliomysteries, edited by Otto Penzler, with me on the plane. It's subtitled "Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores", so I'm sure the stories by Laura...
Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris
As much as I loved Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard mysteries and the Midnight, Texas novels, I've never been a fan of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries. But, Harris and Aurora are popular enough that there's a Hallmark mystery series. Even so, I found the tenth...
Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
If every public librarian, working and retired, buys a copy of Annie Spence's Dear Fahrenheit 451, she'll have a hit on her hands. It has a long subtitle, "Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks, A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life." How...