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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Marilyn Stasio (NYTBR Crime Columnist) has been in my personal doghouse since she "convinced" me to return to the Scarpetta series last year. BAD choice ....
But her judgement now shines unclouded again! At the behest of her latest Sunday column, I acquired and am deliriously entangled in John Harwood's latest -- The Asylum! How can you go wrong with the Gothic setting of a "humane" lunatic asylum in Cornwall, the most unreliable of narrators (suffering from amnesia, seizures, an imaginary friend in a mirror that might not be imaginary, and an unhealthy obsession with Sir Walter Scott's novels), a benevolent sinister doctor, and a new-found love that suffers from "acute melancholia"? And that's only in the first chapter! 
I'm loving this Gothic romp - and can't wait to discover the next ghoulish development! |
I just finished "The Ghost Writer" a couple of weeks ago and reported that here in this thread.
He's a very atmospheric writer - very Jamesian, in my opinion.
Don