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?

What Are You Reading?

Maybe I shouldn’t have talked about the Blizzard of ’78 last week on the blog. Look what happened to the East coast last weekend! And, as I’m writing this, we’re expecting an ice storm to start tonight, and continue most of the day tomorrow...

Timothy Miller, Guest Author

Timothy Miller, Guest Author

Timothy Miller, author of The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter, is my guest blogger today. I hope you enjoy his conspiracy theory as much as I did. Timothy Miller is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. The Strange Case of the...

March Treasures in My Closet

March Treasures in My Closet

I may be wrong, but it looks like March is going to give us a breather. I don’t have as many March book releases here, so it might be a catch-up month for some of us. We can hope! Murder at the Porte de Versailles is Cara Black’s twentieth Aimee Leduc...