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 a Police Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. I’m sending Murder of a Good Man to Charlotte W. of Covington, GA. Kathleen C. from Stockton, CA will receive Survival of the Fritters. Unless I’m floating away here (lots of rain), the books will go...
What Are You Reading?
Honestly? I just collapsed after reading the last three books for yesterday’s deadline for a journal. That’s okay, though. I’ve discovered some new authors and books that I would have never read, and you’ll read all about them in the next...
Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green
I’m a big fan of Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries. They feature an unconventional sleuth, an alien who crashed landed in England in 1963, and some fifty years later he works for the Organization, protecting humanity from otherworldly threats. He...