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
My Reading for the Fall
Although I have a week's worth of reviewed books for next week, this week I have nothing until Saturday. I'm on deadline again. I know that doesn't help you at all. But, I'll share one of my books for fall reading for Library Journal so you can see what I'll be...
Kim Hays, Daughter of a Librarian
Libraries are in my blood. My aunt worked in a library. My mother spent most of her working career in a high school library. My sisters and I all shelved books in our hometown library, as did one of my nephews. My niece works for a public library now. So, of...
Little White Lies
A reader recently joked that I should review books I didn't like because then she wouldn't add them to her TBR pile. Margaret Fenton's Little White Lies wasn't for me. I didn't like social worker Claire Conover at all in this third mystery in the series set in...