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
Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
Last month, there was all kinds of chatter on the Internet about Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up when word went around that she suggested throwing out books. The conversations were quite funny. Novelist Elinor Lipman anticipates what...
Give-a-Damn Jones by Bill Pronzini
Thanks to one of the blog readers, Jeffrey Meyerson, for steering me to Bill Pronzini’s western, Give-a-Damn Jones. Artemis Jones, or Give-a-Damn Jones, is the perfect example of the American paladin, a knight of the road who rides in and cleans up a...
Winners and The Doctor and Murder
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Diane N. from Honolulu, HI won Newcomer, and Glen D. of Yuba City, CA won The Line. This week, the doctor is in – in a mystery. Do No Harm by Dawn Eastman is a Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery. Trouble comes at...