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
Home for the Homicides by Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey
It was Charles Dickens who wrote "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor", but authors Elle Cosimano and Hannah Morrissey took it to heart. I don't know who decided to put these two authors together for Home for the...
What Are You Reading?
Well, I've kept you up-to-date with everything I've been doing, so you've seen the photos of Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, James A. Garfield's home. Saturday, I'm heading to Otterbein University to see Pride & Prejudice, which...
Tell Me About Joy by Kara Kavensky
It was a note from the library that sent me to this book, "While you're waiting" for a novel that hasn't come in yet. Kara Kavensky's Tell Me About Joy is subtitled "A True Story of Love, Regrets, and Second Chances". It wasn't what I expected. I knew it was an...