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
A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
Doors. I'm fascinated by pictures of doors and windows. They always suggest possibilities to me. What's behind those doors and windows? So, I was immediately sucked into Brian Grazer's comments about curiosity in the book he co-authored with Charles Fishman. In the...
A Note from Lynn
My friend, Lynn Kaczmarek, stopped by with a note that's perfect for the season, and this weekend. I hope you enjoy hearing from her occasionally. ***** I’ve been thinking a lot about books lately. Perhaps it’s the need to bury myself in something so I don’t think...
All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
I kept expecting the grand reveal in All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. They had certainly gathered the suspects together as in any Agatha Christie mystery. It just shows how clever the book is that they even managed to switch up the...