For a little spooky reading...

[dmacabre]

I just finished John Harwood's The Ghost Writer, and while there's a lot to process, I quite liked it. It's a bit like The Woman in Black or Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, with a creeping sense of wrongness and dread that keeps building. Lots of lovely gothic detail, too-- family secrets and mysterious photographs, unsettling paintings that

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[shiv5468]

I'm pondering whether your tastes agree with melis!

[dmacabre]

Haha, well, sounds like she's not a fan of Harwood's style, which does jump around from one storyline to another, which in turn drags the pace down occasionally. I'll have to read The Asylum and see how different it is.