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
Cat Me If You Can by Miranda James
I'm going to write an unusual review of Miranda James' latest Cat in the Stacks Mystery, Cat Me If You Can. First, there's the review of the mystery, a story that takes librarian Charlie Harris and Maine Coon cat Diesel out of their Athena, Mississippi home....
Winners and Give Me an M Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Bitter Paradise will go to Karen B. from Golden Valley, MN. Lisa W. of Akron, IN won Running From the Dead. The books are going out in the mail today.This week's authors have names that begin with M. In Death...
What Are you Reading?
How are you? I hope you had at least one good day in the last week. Yesterday was terrific here - weather in the low 80's. Just my temperatures. And, I voted. It wasn't bad at all standing outside in that weather. Took about an hour and a half for early voting....