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 Harvey Girl by Dana Stabenow
It’s 1890. Railroads are being robbed regularly in the New Mexico Territory. Railroad men see it as the cost of doing business. Fred Harvey, owner of the Harvey Houses, doesn’t agree after a conductor is killed on a train. He hires a Pinkerton agent to...
Congratulations to Kim Hays
Thanks to Jennifer for passing on the news that Kim Hays was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery for Splintered Justice. The winners, voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, will be announced at Bouchercon on Oct....
Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
I am the wrong nationality to appreciate Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading. She’s younger than I am, but her childhood reading in the ’80s is certainly different than mine in the ’60s. I preferred her Bookish, her memoir...