What Fiction are you reading this week, October 29, 2023? [View all]
Trick or treat.
Reading the 15th Mary Russell mystery: Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King. Searching for a missing friend, Mary and Sherlock travel from the grim confines of Bedlam to the canals and cabarets of Venice -- only to find the foreboding shadow of Benito Mussolini darkening the fate of a city, an era, and a tormented English lady of privilege. I thought that sounded like an appropriately scary tale for this week. Great little quotation at the front of the book from Thomas Tryon, 1689. "The world is but a great Bedlam, where those that are more mad lock up those that are less."
Listening to Cat Me If You Can by Miranda James. Charlie and Diesel take a bookish vacation but discover that murder never takes a holiday. They're headed to Asheville, NC, to spend a week at a boutique hotel and participate in a gathering of mystery readers. My favorite plot. If I ever attended a gathering of mystery readers/writers and there wasn't a murder, I would likely be disappointed. 
Got anything scary on your reading list this week?
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