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
Favorite Books of 2022
Although I sent my friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley a list of my favorite books of 2022 for her Meanderings and Muses post, "What Did Women Like in 2022?", I said even then that it wouldn't be a final list. I changed my mind, added a book or two, took some off the...
What Are You Reading?
Today is my last day of work in 2022. I'm lucky to be off then until Tuesday, January 3. I need that time off to put together my list of favorite books of 2022, and to compose the February Treasures in My Closet post. Even with time off, I don't have enough reading...
Hide by Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark's Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one...