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
Winners & a Cozy Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. River of Fallen Angels will go to Brenda W. from Hattiesburg, MS. Kathy S. from Saugus, MA won Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away cozy mysteries with...
What Are You Reading?
Monday was the first time I've had Presidents' Day off in ten years. I spent much of it at my friend Donna's house. In January, we did a movie day, the first we had done since Covid in 2020. That was a western day. We watched a 1951 movie that I love, Westward the...
We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe
Will Schwalbe, the author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living, now turns his attention to an unlikely friendship. Schwalbe, who thought he had all the friends he needed in college, all the literary geeks and lesbians and gay men like him, found...