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 Dogged Women Sleuths
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Carol K. from Omaha, NE won The Stolen Letter. Brooklyn Legacies will go to Patti A. from Madison, NH. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away two books featuring dogged women...
What Are You Reading?
First, how are you all, especially those of you on the east coast? I hope Tropical Storm Elsa isn't treating you too badly. I spent eighteen years living on Florida's Gulf Coast, so I know what it's like to deal with tropical storms and hurricane warnings. I still...
Little Black Book by Kate Carlisle
Before discussing Kate Carlisle's fifteenth Bibliophile mystery, Little Black Book, I wanted to praise the cover artist. Because I read a .PDF, I have no idea who Berkley picked for the artist, but this cover is just stunning, and details are so accurate, from the...