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
What Are You Reading?
I don't really have anything to talk about this week, except books. That doesn't mean you can't tell us what's happening in your life or with your local weather. This month, our genre study at work is memoirs. On Saturday, I'll review Valerie Bertinelli's Enough...
Apparently There Were Complaints by Sharon Gless
I seldom read celebrity memoirs, so maybe most of them are as brutally honest as Sharon Gless' Apparently There Were Complaints. She doesn't hesitate to share her faults, and she had plenty. She has an addictive personality, and it came out in many ways in her...
An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn
Even with the seventh book in the Veronica Speedwell series, Deanna Raybourn is still able to surprise the reader. For that matter, An Impossible Impostor manages to shock the unflappable Veronica as well. In April 1889, Veronica and Stoker, the natural historian,...