Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > At the Bottom of the Garden > Status Update

Okay, so Clara is basically the Joan Cusack character from Addams Family Values, but transplanted to something more like Beetlejuice or Poltergeist (depending on how much humor is here, and I don’t expect much). Alternately, this is like a Francis Iles novel - say Malice Aforethought - mixed with The Wicked Deep or something like it. I’m worried for the two girls, but they have their own…tricks.

I’m only a few chapters in, and I absolutely love everything about it. As far as my tastes go, I sense a stunningly good time ahead. Let’s hope!

So I have read 20 out of the 30 Mystery/Thriller novels I have until Sept. 21 to get all done. I’m ahead. I’m gonna read at least two non-related novels before going back to John Dickson Carr and Friends…Tarzan sequel, and this Horror novel. I’m a wee bit saturated with Golden Age-to-1960s Crime novels, so modern techniques, plus non-Crime, are welcome at the moment. But I will soon go to the final 10 of the project.