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?
I’m actually not reading today, but driving to Ohio for a family wedding. It’s my last trip until August. I’ll have to catch up with all of you this evening. However, I just finished Rhys Bowen’s August release,Love and Death Among the...
New York City Trip 2019
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know I love New York City and Broadway, and try to go once or twice a year if I can. I also try to go at the end of May so I can see a play or two before the Tony Awards. This year, I went with my...
Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank
This must be my South Carolina week. First, Patti Callahan Henry’s The Favorite Daughter, and then Dorothea Benton Frank’s Queen Bee about a woman who doesn’t feel as if she’s a favorite at all. The two books couldn’t be any more...


