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
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Years ago, a friend suggested I'd like Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! because I'm a fan of police procedurals. The eighth book in the Discworld series is a police procedural with the most awkward group of police you'd ever want to meet, the Night Watch. But,...
2022 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award Nominees
Congratulations to all the Lefty Award nominees! 2022 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award Nominations Announced January 17, 2022 — Albuquerque — Left Coast Crime 2022 will be presenting four Lefty Awards at our 32nd annual convention, to...
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner
I have problems with graphic novels. Oh, I don't object to them at all. I have problems with some of colors and overlapping words. Visually, I just can't always see the words. But, we're doing a genre study of graphic novels this month at the library. So, I went...