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?
How's everyone faring this week? I left the house once in the last week, but now I have two days in a row of dentist appointments, and I have to go out in these temperatures. There was a high of 11 degrees yesterday when I left the house. And, I know people in the...
Haunting and Homicide by Ava Burke
Ava Burke launches a new cozy mystery series set in New Orleans with Haunting and Homicide. Tallulah "Lou" Thatcher always wanted to combine a gift shop with a haunted tour of the Garden District in New Orleans. She's been able to see ghosts since she was a child,...
Loose Lips by Kemper Donovan
Kemper Donovan has achieved that rare feat. His second Ghostwriter mystery is better than his first, The Busy Body, in my opinion. Loose Lips takes the Ghostwriter, now working under the pseudonym Belle Currer, on a cruise with 300 suspects. As Belle Currer, the...