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?
Heat, humidity, rain, lack of power, work. In Richard's case, I hope you have new glasses. All kinds of reasons you might be busy this week. I hope you found time to read. If you've read earlier blogs this week, you know I'm snowed under, using some of Sandie Herron's...
Have You Heard? Juliet Blackwell’s Synchronized Sorcery
Thank you again to Sandie Herron. Her reviews are a lifesaver right now. Today, for "Have You Heard?", she's talking about the audiobook of Juliet Blackwell's Synchronized Sorcery. Synchronized SorceryWritten by Juliet BlackwellNarrated by Xe SandsSeries: Witchcraft...
The Bookshop of Second Chances by jackie Fraser
I felt so guilty about The Bookshop of Second Chances that I finally bought my own copy. Because I had so many other books to read, Jackie Fraser's charming debut novel was sitting on a table with a bookmark stuck at chapter four. I finally picked it up again over the...