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
I Sleep Around by Sue Ann Jaffarian
I've followed Sue Ann Jaffarian's adventures on Facebook for several years now, from about the time she retired and hit the road in her van, Novella. So, of course I was eager to read her nonfiction account, I Sleep Around: The Humorous Memoir of a Nomadic Writer....
Evil at the Root by Bill Crider
After reading Nelson DeMille's disappointing novel, Plum Island, I picked up a story I knew I would enjoy. I'm reading my way through Bill Crider's Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries. The fifth in the series, Evil at the Root, finds the sheriff so involved in murder...
What Are You Reading?
This was a busy week of reading for Library Journal, so I didn't get out much. Dinner and games at my sister's last night. Saturday, I'm going to the launch party for Connie Berry's new Kate Hamilton mystery, A Collection of Lies. Then, next week, my sister, Linda,...