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 know about where you live, but we've had gorgeous weather for the last week or so - low humidity, temperatures in the 60s or 70s in the morning, and low 80s by evening. Just gorgeous. Able to turn off the air conditioning, and open the house. And, today, I'm...
Have You Heard? Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa kay Adams
I have several reasons for using Sandie Herron's review of the audiobook, Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. I'm on deadline this week, and I always can use a filler or two. And, Adams' new book in the Bromance series, A Very Merry Bromance, will be out...
Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor, author of the Hugo Marston mysteries, kicks off a new series set in occupied Paris with Die Around Sundown. Those of us who are Americans seldom think about the people who lived through or fought in the Great War against the Germans, and then had to face...