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?

How are you? I hope you're all doing okay physically. I hope your families are okay. Work can be rough right now, too. Let us know how you're doing.What are you reading this week? I'm reading escapism. First, I finished a Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich...

An Interlude

An Interlude

 I know it just seems as if I took a break, but I'm still catching up. I'm halfway through Janet Evanovich's 27th Stephanie Plum novel, Fortune and Glory because I gave up on my last book. It just didn't work for me. With election day tomorrow, and returns...