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
April Treasures in My Closet – Part 2
Here's the second part of the list of forthcoming April releases. I hope there's something here that you want to read. Jennifer McMahon leads off with Burntown. Ashford, Vermont appears to be a typical sleepy New England town, but to the shadowy residents who live...
April Treasures in My Closet – Part 1
I have two days of April releases to talk about. I hope some of the books in these lists will become treasures for you. James William Brown brings us the novel, My Last Lament. To capture the fading Greek folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks the...
What Are You Reading?
The next couple days brings Treasures in My Closet, the April book releases. So, I thought we'd use today to talk about what we're reading. I'm reading Hester Young's debut novel from 2015, The Gates of Evangeline. Her second book, The Shimmering Road, is out, and...