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
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
What a fascinating account! The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer is a story of the past, and an account of present terrorism and destruction of the world's treasures. It's a story of...
Where Are You Reading?
I'm down to the last 100 pages of Joshua Hammer's The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. For years, a young man, Abdel Kader Haidara, traveled across the Sahara and along the Niger River, searching for valuable manuscripts that told the cultural history of northern...
Pistols and Petticoats by Erika Janik
The subtitle of Erika Janik's nonfiction book, Pistols and Petticoats, is "175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction". Although the two subjects should fit together perfectly, they didn't seem to flow as well as they should have in the book. However, if you...