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
The Lost Girls by Jessica Chiarella
Jessica Chiarella’s The Lost Girls is a novel outside my comfort zone, but one I enjoyed much more than I expected. I’m not a fan of unreliable narrators. What’s more unreliable than a woman still stuck emotionally at the age of eight, who...
Favorites of 2021 – Jan-June
For me, the best way to celebrate Independence Day is to celebrate the freedom to read, and the wonderful books I’ve read during the first half of 2021. Happy Independence Day! I don’t know how many years it has been since Jen Forbus first asked me to...
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Of course I was interested in reading about J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, the woman who later became the first director of the Morgan Library. Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray stuck close to facts in their historical novel, The Personal...