Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I am usually not a big fan of the horror genre, but I was captivated by this novel's protagonist, a sort-of mid-century Mexican
Miss Fisher. Instead of investigating mundane murders, Noemi Taboada is trying to uncover the secrets of her cousin's illness, her cousin's charming but vaguely menacing new husband, and his family home, which resonates with a history of acts that are perhaps both unnatural and supernatural. Although it threatens to veer into literary territory from time to time, it is mostly a straight-ahead melodrama, peppered with moldy rooms, misty graveyards, taciturn servants, a sympathetic but weak mycologist, and ancient rituals. Good stuff.
Perhaps the best compliment I can pay is that I intend to look up Moreno-Garcia's other fiction.
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