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
Murder at the Capitol by C.M. Gleason
Murder at the Capitol is C.M. Gleason's third Lincoln's White House Mystery. She writes of Washington, D.C. at the beginning of the war with images I never really thought about. D.C. was really a small town in 1861, and a southern small town even more than it was a...
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
Do you know what I love about Sarah MacLean's historical romances (well, other than everything)? One Good Earl Deserves a Lover: The Second Rule of Scoundrels, the second in her Rules of Scoundrels series, is the funniest one I've read yet. Each one is so...
Winners and a Library Lover’s Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Mary H. from St. Louis, MO will receive Catriona McPherson's Strangers at the Gate, and Virginia D. from Tempe, AZ won The Long Call by Ann Cleeves. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving...