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
Female of the Species Giveaway
Welcome back to the weekly giveaway! This week's theme is "Female of the Species", books featuring female sleuths. Most of you will recognize Jessica Fletcher and the Murder, She Wrote series. Manuscript for Murder by "Jessica Fletcher" and Jon Land finds Jessica...
What Are You Reading?
Our first "What Are You Reading?" of the new year! Did you have time to read over the holidays? I hope you had time to spend with loved ones, and a little time to yourself for a book or several. I have two books to talk about today. One is a novel, and I'll review it...
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Debut novelist Chris Hammer takes readers to an Australia that might appeal to Jane Harper's readers. Scrublands is an atmospheric mystery set in a dying community, Riversend. The descriptions in Scrublands shows evidence of Hammer's journalist career. One year...