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
Rosemary Kaye’s Favorites of 2022
For the last couple years, I've been posting the favorite booklists from some of the Thursday regulars. I'm sharing their booklists again this year, one every week or so. They'll be posted in the order I received them. Each list is a little different, not only in...
Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay's mysteries are always humorous and a little offbeat with heartwarming relationships between close friends. Fatal Fascinator, the seventh Hat Shop mystery, fits that description perfectly. Scarlett Parker could have saved everyone a great deal of...
The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
"I never saw a Purple Cow,I never hope to see one;But I can tell you, anyhow,I'd rather see than be one." By Gelett Burgess, who also wrote, "Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!"...