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
Have You Heard? Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
Sandie Herron always knows when I need a few reviews to fill in because I'm on deadline. She stepped in with today's review. You should read her concluding paragraph. Very interesting. Like my comments yesterday, her remarks are not common knowledge. Tomorrow, I have...
Have You Heard? – William Kent Krueger’s Copper River
I'm aware that you can only get Audible Audiobooks through Amazon. There was an excellent article in The Washington Post this past week explaining why you can't get the audiobooks of some authors' works through your local public library. Amazon will not allow public...
Winners and A Police Procedural Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Daniel M. from Weymouth, MA won What Waits for You. Ed H. from Arroyo Grande, CA won the copy of Pickard County Atlas. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away one new police procedural...