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?
I'm looking forward to our conversation today, although I'll miss Rosemary who is in Rome for a couple weeks. It's only October, and I'm already cold. It was 43 degrees on Tuesday morning. That's already too cold for me. I went to the library Monday night for a...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Mysterious Bookshop Presents The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2026
I have a lot of little things this week. I went to a terrific library program I'll talk about on Thursday. Linda and I have a play tonight, "Death Becomes Her". I'm reading a debut by an author I hope to see next month. Things just added up sucking up time, so I...
A Date with Santa by Debbie Macomber
I needed something light and fluffy, and it doesn't get much fluffier than Debbie Macomber's annual Christmas romance. This year's is A Date with Santa. Sage Madison's sister, Saffron, always was the more impulsive one of the two. There she was, a widow with a young...