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
The Awakening by Nora Roberts
My friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, kidded me that Nora Roberts' new Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy was written just for me. Maybe not, but The Awakening, the first in the series, was perfect for me since I love Ireland so much. It's fiction, fantasy, and a story of...
One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
Ellen Cooney's novel, One Night Two Souls Went Walking is not an easy book to read, but it's beautiful. It's not easy to read about a chaplain's loss of faith. How does a chaplain talk about the soul with dying people when she herself has lost her belief? The...
Frontier Follies by Ree Drummond
Ree Drummond’s Frontier Follies was all I had hoped for in her memoir, the story of her family and life on the Drummond Ranch. I watch “The Pioneer Woman” on TV, but I watch for the anecdotes and scenes of ranch life. I don’t use her recipes or cooking equipment. I...