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
Winners and an English Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Both books are heading to California. Jean U. from Burbank won A Dream of Death. All the Rage is going to Doreen D. from Long Beach. The books are going out in the mail today. I may have mentioned it, but...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you've all had a good week of reading, and a week of good weather. It's been a little cooler here, which has been nice. My current book sent me down a rabbit hole. As a librarian, I love rabbit holes of research. I know I mentioned that when I was home, we...
The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright
I'm one of those readers who thinks fiction authors should be free to create characters and plots, and they don't have to be the same gender or race as the protagonist. It will be interesting to see what the crime fiction community says about Snowden Wright's The...