On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared My Top 5 November Reads.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie and my choice was Books with Periods of Time in the Title.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Friday – I looked back at the Bookish Goals I set myself in 2024.
Saturday – I joined the #6Degrees of Separation meme forging a book chain from Sandwich by Catherine Newman to Talland House by Maggie Humm.
New arrivals
The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray (eARC, Vintage via NetGalley)
In post-war Flanders, Adelais de Wolf’s family is slowly, inexplicably falling apart: her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a beloved uncle, Adelais finds herself in receipt of an unexpected legacy: a shuttered house in a rundown district and its contents – contents which hold the promise of wealth and independence. All that is required is application, nerve, and a willingness to operate outside of the law.
Adelais stifles her doubts and her fortunes are transformed. But with her rise comes complications: her victimless crimes may not be as victimless as she supposed. Nor has she counted on the singular fanaticism of Major de Smet of the Federal Gendarmerie, a brutal detective who never forgives and never forgets.
Caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, will Adelais find that her new life comes at too high a price?
Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident by Martin Davies (eARC, Allison & Busby via NetGalley)
It is spring in Baker Street, and London is preparing itself for the wedding of the season – an international spectacular in which the young and popular Duke of Krasnow, a political exile from his native land, is due to take the hand of the beautiful and accomplished Princess of Rovenia – a union that will heal the divisions between her family and the duke’s. But the stakes are high.
When the princess disappears in dramatic circumstances, other members of the British establishment are quick to call on Mr Sherlock Holmes and he, in turn, looks to his redoubtable housekeeper Mrs Hudson, and housemaid Flotsam, to assist in this puzzling case.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Time of the Child by Niall Williams
- Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
We’re in the final month of the year so it’s time to take a look at the book-related goals I set myself at the beginning of the year and see how I’ve got on.
What Cathy Read Next... 