A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis5/20/2023 But then the novel does a huge shift into a mildly suspenseful detective novel that faintly resembles Sherlock Holmes. When I first received the ARC I was ecstatic as the blurb had promised a dark thriller shrouded in madness. I have very mixed thoughts about this book. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends-and hope. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum-but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story.
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