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?
What Are You Reading?
How are you? Did you survive last week? I hope you’re doing okay. I’m always willing to listen. Here’s the other question. What are you reading? I’m reading Rick Bragg’s new collection, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep...
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Pushcart Prize-winning poet Maggie Smith is the kind of book that’s difficult to review, but important to share. It might just call out to one or two people who really need this book. It’s a...
Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath
Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath
I haven’t yet read the previous five books in Lorraine Heath’s Sins for All Seasons historical romance series. However, I will read them because I fell in love with the Trewlove siblings. Of course, I started with Beauty Tempts the...