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
In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I ed. by Elizabeth Foxwell
In recent years, there have been a number of books published about women and their roles in World War II. We haven't seen as much about the women who served, in some capacity or another, during the first world war. Elizabeth Foxwell remedies that situation with...
My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
When Gourmet magazine folded, Ruth Reichl had been editor in chief for ten years. She was lost. She felt as if the magazine had survived for almost seventy years, and folded on her watch. After she finished her book tour duties for the company, she and her husband...
Killer Year: Stories to Die For edited by Lee Child
I don't know if it would have been better to read Killer Year: Stories to Die For... when it originally came out in 2008 or not. With the 2015 paperback release, the author biographies have been updated. We now know what happened with the "Class of 2007". In...