I haven’t read any of The Tapestry series books though I’ve heard good things about them. I’ll also be interested in hearing what others think of them.

Love and Lament – Southern Gothic during WWI era? Sign me up!

The Lost – A new Sarah Beth Durst novel? Yippee. She’s an author I found in the past year and who just keeps getting better with each book. Can’t wait for this one even though it has a handsome mysterious loner dude* and makes me fearful of the obligatory love story.

The Great Trouble – Victorian mudlark? Urchins on a mission? Count me in. See also above recommendation for Dodger.

The Dark Between – early 20th century Spiritualism movement? A group of friends solving a mystery? Yup, I’m there.

Speaking of a group of friends solving a mystery, did any of you watch The Bletchley Circle on PBS? It’s an excellent mini-series (only 3 episodes)about four women who were part of The Bletchley Project during WWII as code breakers. The series starts nine years later. One of the women, Susan, starts applying her pattern recognition skills she learned at Bletchley to a series of murders of young women and gets three of her friends from the Bletchley Project to help. What’s great is that each woman brings a different skill to solving the puzzle. I like that they’re concentrating more on the problem solving than the serial killer. I’m glad about that ’cause it’s the problem solving I find interesting and serial killers freak me out. I read that the show just was renewed for a second series of 4 episodes this time. Lucky UK folks will see it before us in the US. Okay, I know it’s a TV show and not a book but it’s such an excellent show I wanted to give it a shout out as I thought many of the readers here would also enjoy it.

*Thanks to the lovely ladies at FYA for the term.