Percolations

Eisenheim the Illusionist, from The Barnum Museum was written by Steven Millhauser in 1990, and was the basis of the film 'The Illusionist' (2006). So when I came across Enchanted Night, I snapped it up immediately.

This is a series of vignettes that thread together to form one story with Gothic undertones. It follows the denizens of a small town, on a moonlit summer night, infusing midnight yearnings with aching dreams.

I like Flavia de Luce and her penchant for chemistry and genius for solving murders, even though she is only eleven years old. In this sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, I get to meet-up again with a cast of familiar ‘faces’, rounded out by the return of Flavia's sometimes nemesis-sometimes hero, Inspector Hewitt.

If you have been following my book reviews then you know I tripped over myself when I found The Glass of Time by Michael Cox. He is the author of The Meaning of Night, and this book is it’s sequel. When I reluctantly finished and set down The Meaning of Night, I had no clue that I would be revisiting Evenwood and the Gothic Victorian era that evoked such a beguiling web of intrigue and murder.

Michael Cox 1948-2009