Card 5 of 9New mysteries offer plenty of suspense.
Background Image: In this illustration, a figure lies on a beach on a striped towel, a book over their eyes.
On the left is a figure who recalls Sherlock Holmes.
He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, and bending down to peer at the sand through a magnifying glass.
The title of Tara Ison’s AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF (Ig Publishing, 296 pp., paperback, $17.95) comes from a French expression for twilight.
Sure enough, her novel sends us to the dusk that borders the familiar and the wild, the known and the unknown.
It’s where our beliefs and suspicions can cast dark shadows over our lives.
But Marie-Jeanne is actually Danielle Marton, a Jewish child smuggled out of Paris by her recently widowed mother.
And Berthe and Claude are actually her grandparents’ former maid and butler.