Vengeance? Count me in – 26 December 2025

There is no newsletter this week.

Or is this it?

One recommendation. All bases covered. The Count of Monte Cristo.

I’m reading it now. Why did you let me live this long without doing so? I blame the parents.

If you enjoy a crime novel, I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo.

If you enjoy historical fiction, I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo.

If you enjoy romance, I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo.

If you long for adventure, how about The Count of Monte Cristo?

If you love Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Shawshank Redemption, The Iliad, The Leopard (book or film – a rare concession to both), Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, rolling cigars, dressing up, hatching plots, plotting hatchets, treasure hunts, duels and identity fraud, poison, bribery and faked deaths, have you heard of The Count of Monte Cristo?

If something about enforced time with relatives has you dreaming of escape and revenge… you get the idea.

If you like tiny books in which nothing happens, The Count of Monte Cristo is not for you. Actually. I am wrong, of course. It is. Just treat each chapter as an immaculate short story.

May your weekend be full of intrigue, conspiracy, retribution and cigars,
Lizzie