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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. |
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Recent Posts
Off the Map by Trish Doller
Trish Doller's female characters just speak to me. If you read Float Plan, you might remember Anne, whose fiance died, and she impulsively decided to sail the world. In Off the Map, readers can catch up with Anne when Carla Black flies to Ireland to be maid of...
Winners and a Cozy Corner Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Leslie K. from Plymouth, MN won Dead And Gondola. The Accomplice will go to Patrick M. from York, ME. The books will go out in the mail today (unless the weather is worse than I expect). This week, there are...
What Are You Reading?
After sitting in the stairwell at work for forty-five minutes on Friday, during a tornado warning, Monday was glorious here. It was a record high of 77, and sunny. I'd take that any day. Now, we're back in the fifties, of course, but that's typical March weather....