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
Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel
Well, two admissions here. We all know I didn't take much time to read in the last week. The second admission is that I seldom read graphic novels because I have a hard time with the graphics and print. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic...
What Are You Reading?
And, I'm now in Ohio! Mom and my sister, Christie, came down yesterday, and helped me unpack, just as they helped me pack last week. I appreciated every minute of their time, including their driving time. Now, though, they had just over two hours to get here...
Dark Ride by Lou Berney
It's been five years since Lou Berney's last novel, the multi-award-winning November Road. But, in Dark Ride, Berney's themes are once again children in jeopardy and the unexpected anti-hero. Hardy "Hardly" Reed is a weed-smoking, lost twenty-three-year-old who is...