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?
Let's hope WordPress does a better job this week with formatting of the site than they did last week. I'm glad all of you stepped up anyways, and still read and submitted comments even though the blog was giving all of us a hard time. Thank you! Hot here, in the 90s...
Saralyn Richard, Guest Author
Galveston Author Saralyn Richard Because I wasn't familiar with Saralyn Richard's books, many of you might not be familiar with her or her work either. Today, I'd like to introduce her, and welcome her as our guest author. Award-winning and best-selling author,...
The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly
Although Sheila Connolly was able to wrap up some of the mysteries behind the lives of Henry and Mary Barton in her third Victorian Village Mystery, The Secret Staircase, she left us with the village of Asheboro, Maryland unfinished, and the house unfinished. In the...


