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
What Are You Reading?
I hope everyone is doing okay this week - that tornadoes and volcanoes have avoided you. It's been a quiet week here, and I'll take that. We're supposed to have 50s through the weekend. That makes me happy because it means one more week without snow. This week,...
January Treasures in My Closet
Are you ready to talk about January book releases? I've been somewhat disappointed in some of the books of 2022, so I'm looking forward to 2023 releases. Although, I'll tell you right up front. There are a lot of dark books coming out in January, and I'm not a fan...
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a fan of the last Gamache book, The Madness of Crowds. I won't say I breathed a sigh of relief when I read the eighteenth book, Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities. A reader can't breathe a sigh of relief until the last page...