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
Where I Come From by Rick Bragg
If you read Southern Living, you've probably read most of the essays in Rick Bragg's book Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. I'm not from the South. I'm not from the mill towns and hills and country that Bragg describes with so much love. But, it...
Winners & Another Christmas Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Silent Bite will go to Marie R. from Horeseheads, NY. Nancy H. of Dodgeville, WI will receive The Christmas Card Crime. The books will go out in the mail today. I have two more Christmas mysteries to give...
What Are You Reading?
How are you? Did you survive last week? I hope you're doing okay. I'm always willing to listen.Here's the other question. What are you reading? I'm reading Rick Bragg's new collection, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. Rick Bragg and Craig...