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
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Well, I won't make that mistake again. I had never read one of Carley Fortune's beach reads. I had her latest one, One Golden Summer, home twice from the library, and had to take it back because there were people waiting for it. When I picked it up this time, I...
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
Don't trust anyone. That's the message given to six people who agree to spend the Christmas holidays playing a mystery game at Midwinter, a village in the extreme north of England. It's also a warning to readers of Martin Edwards' first Christmas mystery, Miss...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you had a good week! We had great porch-sitting weather, and then yesterday we had an all-day rain, just what we needed. Last Thursday was my favorite afternoon of the week, though. My sister, Linda, and I went to Westerville, first to a new-to-us bookstore,...