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
April Treasures in My Closet
April Treasures in My Closet
February went fast. It’s already time for Treasures in My Closet, books that will be released in April. Let’s get started. We have quite a few titles to get through. Commissaire Dupin returns in Jean-Luc Bannalec’s The Fleur de Sel Murders....
What Are You Reading?
What Are You Reading?
What better way to end the month than to talk about what we’re reading? I’m actually reading a book that comes out in April, Rick Bragg’s The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table. It’s a combination memoir and...
Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland
Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland
At the beginning of 2015, John Leland, a journalist for the New York Times, embarked on a year-long project. He met with seniors to come up with six people to follow to learn from them about being old, and what it means today. The result was a series in the...