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
Getting Naked by Valerie Bertinelli
Valerie Bertinelli's memoir, Getting Naked, came out in March. Someone reviewed it here (Margie?), however I picked it up at the library yesterday, and read it in the afternoon. Bertinelli has written other books before that explored her life and feelings about it....
A Murderer’s Guide to Mardi Gras by Ellen Byron
If you want to discover New Orleans or Louisiana in a cozy mystery, you can't do any better than Ellen Byron novels. First, she won awards for her Cajun Country mysteries, and lately for her Vintage Cookbook mysteries. Byron has other series, but these two are my...
What Are You Reading?
I guess I told all of you what I did this week when I posted about my trip to Dover, Ohio to see Linda Castillo at the Dover Public Library. Even if you haven't read her crime novels, you might want to try her short stories in A Dark Path. You'll meet her characters,...