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
Kaye Wilkinson Barley’s Favorite Books Read in 2025
Kaye Wilkinson Barley and I have been friends online and in person for years. She's been my roommate at Bouchercon mystery conferences, and on a trip to Paris. It's always a joy to welcome her to Lesa's Book Critiques, and to share the books she loves. You can see...
What Are You Reading?
Well, we talked on Monday as to how you were doing during the winter storm. Let's catch up. I'm still at Linda and Kevin's. Kevin is the only one who has gone anywhere, and that was just a quick grocery run. Who knows when I'll go home. Kevin says they're holding...
Murder She Wrote: The Body in the Trees by Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran
The Murder She Wrote books are comfort cozies. The Body in the Trees by "Jessica Fletcher" and Terrie Farley Moran is one of those return to Cabot Cove stories, set in October, when the leaves are changing in small-town Maine, and friends rally to support each...