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 Correspondent by Virginia Evans
I can't recommend Virginia Evans' novel, The Correspondent, highly enough. If you like epistolary novels with a depth of character, meet Sybil Van Antwerp. Sybil is retired from practicing law. She's divorced, a mother and grandmother who lives in Annapolis,...
What Are You Reading?
It's been a good week. Easter dinner at my sister and brother-in-law's. Weather in the 70s a couple days. Last night, Linda and I went to see "A Beautiful Noise", the musical about Neil Diamond. Because I'm writing this before the show, I don't have anything else...
My Mistake
I waited all day for Kate DiCamillo's second book in her series, Orris and Timble: Lost and Found. It was only at the end of the day that I checked, and saw release day is next Tuesday, not yesterday. Darn. So, instead of a fresh review, you have my reviiew of...