What Fiction are you reading this week, January 8, 2023?

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Albertine Books NYC

I just finished Walking by Night by Kate Ellis. Like the other Ellis books I have read, this one contains elements of history, religion and archaeology. Taking place in a foggy Yorkshire town full of history, unexplained deaths and an abundance of suspects, it will keep you guessing right up to the end. I didn't think the writing flowed quite as nicely as in the Wesley Peterson novels and a few elements didn't make sense at all. For me, anyway. But, it was a good story overall.

Next up, Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany, the first Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery. I've been looking forward to this one for a while as it has all my favorite themes: a bookshop; Holmes-inspired writing and puns; a cat named Moriarty; women detectives; the occult and supernatural. There's even a Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room.

Listening to Careless Whiskers by Miranda James, a Cat in the Stacks mystery. A tale of murder in a theater which is the same thing happening in the Ellis book I was reading. So many similarities that I was having trouble remembering which was who, what, and where.

What books are holding your interest this week?