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
The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor
It's always a joy to return to Ireland with Sarah Stewart Taylor's Maggie D'arcy. The Drowning Sea is the third in the series. Maggie D’arcy resigned as a homicide detective in Long Island. Now, she and her teenage daughter, Lily, are spending two months at a...
“One Day More”
I'm off today, so I have one day more of reading. I do have a book review scheduled for tomorrow, and this extra day should give me time to read and review several more books. Enjoy your own week! As I said, I have a review up tomorrow, but I hope you stop by on...
Gone Reading
If ever there was an image of my summer days as a kid, that's it. Yes, I spent lots of time outside with my sisters, but I also spent entire days on my bed reading enormous books. I read three Wizard of Oz books in one day. I had such a headache at the end of the...