Good Book...

I just finished a book that my book club read before I joined. It was one of their favorites and now I know why. It was a good mystery novel, and kept the pages turning. If you haven't read this one and are looking for an entertaining holiday read, I'd recommend it: The Shadow of the Wind was written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and the below description is from Barnes & Noble:

Barcelona, 1945-A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author's identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret.