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?
As I write this, the meteorolgists haven't decided if we're going to get a dusting of snow this weekend, or up to seventeen inches. I'm voting for the dusting, but I don't think I have a choice. The closer we get to the weekend, the more they'll know. They usually do...
Margie Bunting’s Favorites of 2021
I'm always so happy to share one of our reader's lists of favorite books of the past year. Today, Margie Bunting is talking about her Favorites of 2021. Margie is in her seventh year as editor of the newsletter for Sisters in Crime of Northern California. Her reviews...
Find Me by Alafair Burke
While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn't the primary focus of Alafair Burke's Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a resolution to her...