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
Christmas Reading?
Do you have Christmas traditions of reading? Or, do you search for new Christmas books to read every year? Maybe you don't have time to pick up books right now, but if you do, are you doing any holiday reading? I've read a few Christmas books this year, but nothing...
The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Feret-Fleury
I do understand why translations don't always work at our library. Different review sources called Christine Feret-Fleury's novel, "Delightful", "Enchanting", "Life Affirming". Maybe The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is missing something in Ros Schwartz'...
Checked Out by Elizabeth Spann Craig
While I've been known to complain about the amateur sleuths in cozy mysteries who ignore their jobs, I don't have that complaint about Ann Beckett in Elizabeth Spain Craig's Checked Out. The librarian does her job, shows up early, works late, and asks her...