Dean Koontz's latest, "77 Shadow Street", was a strange tale about a building that travels forward in time, its inhabitants are murdered, and then the building returns to its rightful place in history. This happens every 38 years. Yeah...I didn't really understand it. Very strange.
"Cleopatra's Moon" by Vicky Shecter was a very good YA novel about Cleopatra's daughter and what happens to her in Rome after Caesar's nephew Octavius takes her and her brothers prisoner after defeating Egypt in war. Shecter did a lovely job capturing the time period.
"Every Little Crook and Nanny" by Evan Hunter was a zany little romp about a dumb kidnapper who takes a mobster's son. Luckily the mobster, Carmine, is in Italy, so the Nanny figures she can get the kid back with the help of some of Carmine's mob buddies before Carmine comes home and finds out what happened. Hilarity ensues when everything that can go wrong does, the mobsters are a bunch of bumbling idiots, but it made me laugh and the ending was fun. I could easily see this as being a Woody Allen type of comedy on film.
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