It took a while for the next Lane Winslow book Lightning Strikes the Silence, by Iona Whishaw to come out, and then a while for me to read it (it's a big book and I've been leaning towards shorter stories of late), but when I started I could not put it down. This is a favorite author of mine, her writing is simply beautiful from the descriptions of the time period to the events in the story ... in this case not too long after WWII and what appears to be an unexploded bomb (that wasn't). Add to that the dead body of a Japanese woman and a surviving (but mute) child and all kinds of feelings from the war are brought up. Then there is the death of a local jeweler, too, what is going on? I won't wait as long to read the next in the series!

And, speaking of a good series ... The Case of the Disappearing Duchess is the sixth in the Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer and was just as good a read as the earlier books. (I'm told the Netflix series is excellent as well, by at least three people). Enola and her brother are both looking for the Duchess, but it is Enola that figures out she has been kidnapped, and why. Sherlock is also looking for Enola (and completely misses her once, when she is in costume) because he needs help deciphering a cryptic message from their mother. Mycroft, of course, wants to find Enola and send her to a proper boarding school. Will they meet up? Come to terms? Figure everything out?

Reading Hermit With Dog