What Fiction are you reading this week, October 8, 2023?

[Staph]

15. On Wednesday, Mainer posted Time Magazine's list of the 100 best mysteries/thrillers.

I've read so few, so I decided to start from the beginning. I'm reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860.

The language is very mid-Victorian, but not as difficult to slog through as some of Dicken's works. But the story is great! I'm 145 pages into 1318 (e-book pages, not paper ones!) and I think I have not yet met all of the major characters - at least, I haven't met the villain or villains yet.

The Woman in White is an intricately plotted story, organized as a chain of 'witness' statements from a wide diversity of characters designed to unravel a cunning conspiracy against innocent women by a duo of memorable aristocratic monsters, Sir Percival Glyde and his devilish companion, the Italian Count Fosco.