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
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women by Kate Quinn, et al.
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women is a heartbreaking book. The six authors told the stories of women who were intimately involved with the French Revolution, as instigators, writers, politicians, survivors. Some of the women were executed on...
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
I'm going to complain again today about the categorization of novels. Don't get me wrong. I loved Jane Harper's The Lost Man. She brings the Australian outback, with its heat and dirt and isolation, to life. But, a thriller? I wouldn't call it a thriller at all....
Girls Like Us by Christina Alger
This is just a hypothetical question. And, I've been reading and reviewing books long enough to know that the publisher actually picks a category for a book to generate sales. Libraries also classify fiction. And, who is to say that any of us are right? So why is a...