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
To the Dark by Chris Nickson
If you like realistic historical fiction, atmospheric with sometimes grim details of daily life, you might want to try the third Simon Westow mystery, Chris Nickson's To the Dark. When the snow melts in the dirty factory town of Leeds, England in February 1823, the...
Winners and Blood and Bones Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Charlotte W. from Covington, GA won A Curious Incident. Symphony Road will go to Kevin T. from Dallas, TX. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, the theme is blood and bones. Jess Lourey's novel,...
What Are You Reading?
Is that snow melting where you are, or are you one of the lucky people in California or other warm climates who didn't have it? I had four days off last week due to the snow, so I'm not complaining. I didn't have to drive to work in it. And, I had my first vaccine on...