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
Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks brings back Jane Prescott, a ladies' maid in the early twentieth century in New York, in Death of a New American. The first in the series, A Death of No Importance, was one of Library Journal's top ten mysteries of 2018. While this historical...
Winners & A March Mysteries Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Linda K. from Woodstock, MD won The Perfect Alibi. Broken Bone China is going to Jane T. from West Linn, OR. The books will go out in the mail today. I have two more March mystery releases to give away today....
What Are You Reading?
It's Thursday! Let's talk about what you're reading, or what you've read in the last week, since the last time we "talked". How many of you remember the cartoon "Cathy"? I read the cartoon regularly, and identified with Cathy's body image issues. I didn't identify...