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
Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant
I will never look at my mail carrier in the same way after reading Stephen Starring Grant's Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. If you're like me, you think of them delivering the mail, letters, magazines and packages....
The Re-Do List by Denise Williams
When you discover a new author and enjoyed their book, do you ever wonder how you got there? I may have put a hold on Denise Williams' The Re-Do List because of BookPage. I'm not really sure. However, I already picked up a collection of Williams' novellas. I'm all...
A Day of Judgment by Charles Todd
Charles Todd's latest Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, A Day of Judgent, takes the Scotland Yard officer into communities that haven't forgotten or forgiven the events of the Great War, and the Germans who threatened the coast. Rutledge has finally been promoted to...