Miyuki Miyabe has a new book called The Devil's Whisper. She's a top mystery writer in Japan and this one sold two million copies in that country. It's the story of a 16-year-old who looks into three seemingly unrelated deaths.
A Spy By Nature is a first novel by Charles Cumming, who bases some of the circumstances of his protagonist, Alec Milious, on his own recruitment at a young age to the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The Meaning of Night: A Confession is virtually all plot -- 700 pages of it. Yet we sped through it, completely engrossed in this Victorian England revenge novel. It's full of familiar elements: a country house, an inheritance, hidden identities and relationships, betrayals, and murder. In the end, it may not transcend the genre, but it sure is fun getting there.
written on Monday Oct 22, 2007
the devil's whisper and the meaning of night.
