Mailbox Monday

It's Mailbox Monday! Mailbox Monday gathers together for readers the books that came into the house last week. (feel free to share yours) Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

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THE CRIMSON CAVALIER by Mary Andrea Clarke (via paperbackswap.com)

Miss Georgiana Grey is not quite the proper gentlewoman everyone thinks she is in Clarke's enchanting debut set in late 18th-century London. When a ruthless magistrate is found murdered, all signs point to the local highwayman, the Crimson Cavalier, as the culprit, but Georgiana knows differently and vows to discover the truth. The growing list of suspects includes her own brother, who's officially involved in investigating the crime, and the keenly astute Max Lakesby, guardian of a young woman whose mother was trying to arrange her daughter's marriage to the victim. By delving into the lives of the rich and the titled, Georgiana puts her own life in jeopardy.

Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) by Alexandra Sokoloff via Kindle

because I like her blog about story structure.

I think that is it. I may have a couple samples for the Kindle but nothing else new to me, I think.

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I've just started THE REMBRANDT AFFAIR by Daniel Silva. This is 10th of 10 in series featuring Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and Israeli secret agent. Here is a description:

Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer, Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem. And it is one only Gabriel can solve. In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and those responsible for the crime. But as he painstakingly follows a trail of clues leading from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and, finally, to a villa on the graceful shores of Lake Geneva, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets connected to the painting. And evil men behind them. Before he is done, Gabriel will once again be drawn into a world he thought he had left behind forever, and will come face to face with a remarkable cast of characters: a glamorous London journalist who is determined to undo the worst mistake of her career, an elusive master art thief who is burdened by a conscience, and a powerful Swiss billionaire who is known for his good deeds but may just be behind one of the greatest threats facing the world.

It was published in July of this year and has 496 pages. I've got it as a 14-day book from the library so the clock is ticking.

I don't have anything to watch tonight on tv other than some football. I should put in some time on the newsletter but we'll see how it works out after dinner.

It's definitely feeling like fall out now. Love it.

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster