“It was a dark and stormy night…” Okay, it was not stormy, but in Mark Pryor’s second thriller starring Hugo Marston entitled The Crypt Thief, the story opens in a famous Paris cemetery in the middle of a dark night. Spooky. The villain, nicknamed The Scarab, is up to no good. He kills a young …
Recently, I recommended Erika Robuck’s novel, The House of Hawthorne, to a friend who, like me, is currently “unemployed,” which really means we’re full-time homemakers and also artists. This book, based on the life of the artist Sophia Peabody, who married the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, impressed me greatly with its beauty and candidness. Sophia was the light …
