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
Winners and Far East Murder Mysteries
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Caitlin M. from Hawthorne, CA will receive A Treacherous Curse. The Word is Murder will go to Laura R. of Kiel, WI. Just a note up front that this week’s contest will be a day shorter. It needs to end on...
What Are You Reading?
For those of you in the parts of the country that were in the freezing temperatures yesterday, I hope you were snuggled in with a good book. What are you reading? I’m reading a debut cozy mystery. It’s not a debut. The author wrote novels under another...
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for Ancestry.com or any of the other genealogy sites. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. She writes of it inInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. ...