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?
Welcome to Thursday! The weather has been beautiful here this week, nice enough to walk in the morning. Even better, perfect weather to sit out on the screened in porch and watch lightning bugs and rabbits at twilight. I love lightning bugs, and missed them when I was...
Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews
I'll admit I bogged down early when reading Mary Kay Andrews' current beach read, Road Trip. Initially, I wasn't fond of Maeve and Therese Dunagin, sisters from Savannah, Georgia. Once they moved past their squabbling after their mother's death and headed for Ireland,...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Shades of the Job by Frank Zafiro
I'm about halfway through a 450 page book that I should have read just about the time I got the flu. But, I'm reading it now, so I'm sharing Kevin Tipple's review of Frank Zafiro's novella. Thank you, Kevin! Shades of the Job: A Stanley Melvin P.I. Story by Frank...