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
Winners and a Gothic Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of Ellen Byron/Maria DiRico's Four Parties and a Funeral. Ellen will send copies to Jane D. from Valparaiso, IN, Anita K. from Harrisburg, PA, and Kathryn Z. from Sacramento, CA. This week, I'm giving away two books with gothic...
What Are You Reading?
I actually saved these couple sentences from a news report because I know it describes the weather so many of us are experiencing. If you're in the Midwest or the East, we're dealing with hazy days in which we're supposed to stay inside if we can because the air...
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
I had to laugh. Just when I finished Julia Seales' debut mystery, A Most Agreeable Murder, two readers asked me to post a review about a book that they would not want to add to their TBR pile. While this book didn't fit my sense of humor, I know there are readers...