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

Schedule Change

Schedule Change

Normally, you'd find the book giveaway here on a Friday. However, I'll be on vacation next week, so I'm not going to run the giveaway this week. I will congratulate the winners of the copies of Die Around Sundown. Sandy G. from North Plainfield, NJ, and Jennifer D....

What Are You Reading?

What Are You Reading?

I have to say I'm really just writing this as fast as I can before the server crashes again. It has been down more than it's been up since Sunday. One day, I couldn't write my blog. Several days, I couldn't read it until late in the day. I'm sorry if it's been a...