From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] I really, really enjoyed this book. Some reviewers have complained that the novel was slow-paced, but I could barely stand to do anything else while I was reading it. Normally I would have rated All Things Cease to Appear a five star read, but the lack of quotation marks throughout the novel was extremely irritating. (What’s wrong with using punctuation?! ) I also thought the ending was wrapped up a bit too neat and tidy for my taste. Those issues aside, I was mesmerized by the story from the minute I began. George Clare, an Art History prof. arrives home from work one winter evening to find his beautiful young wife dead, with an axe through her head, and their toddler Franny, home alone with her mother's corpse. This novel is a bit of a creepy ghost story, psychological thriller, murder mystery, all rolled in to one. Highly recommended.