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
What Are You Reading?
What Are You Reading?
It’s Thursday! I’m going to be in an important meeting for part of the day, so I won’t be around mid-day, but I’ll start out with all of you, and catch up. I’m not going to talk about what I’m reading today. Instead, I’m...
Anthony Award Nominations
Anthony Award Nominations
I wanted to share this today because we might want to talk about some of the books for “What Are You Reading” on Thursday, if you’ve read any of them. Congratulations to all of the nominees! The nominations for the 2018 Anthony Awards were...
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
Caroline Preston, the author of The War Bride’s Scrapbook, actually had an earlier book that was similar. While that book centered on World War II, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, was about a young woman in the twenties. As in the...