Happy Halloween! I live in an apartment complex, so I don’t expect trick-or-treaters tonight. But, I am running a few errands in the morning, so we’ll see what staff are wearing.

Five days in a row with meals at my sister and brother-in-law’s. Kevin made chili for the Ohio State football game. It was so tense, I don’t know if he’ll make it again, although it was excellent.

Then, Sunday night, Linda and I went to the Midland Theatre in Newark to see Celtic Thunder. I’ve probably seen them over fifteen times. Linda’s husband calls them “One of Lesa’s Irish Boy Bands.” Love it! They sang an a capella version of “Amazing Grace” that is beautiful. From there, they were off to Pittsburgh to sing the National Anthem on Monday Night Football. Naturally, the network didn’t show it, but I’ve seen it online.

I’ve just started Carlene O’Connor’s third County Kerry mystery. Eerie beginning, and I have the feeling it’s going to remain eerie. After two pregnant women in Dingle who have never met each receive a chilling email warning them that they’re in grave danger, the two decide to meet each other to figure out what is going on. But when one of the mothers, Shauna, a deaf woman, arrives at their meeting place at the village Spring Festival, she fears a trap and hurries off to meet the couple who plan to adopt her baby. Meanwhile, Dimpna Wilde has her hands full with lambing season and keeping track of her father, so she’s grateful for the help of a well-meaning ten-year-old boy, Dylan, at the veterinary clinic. But when the lad goes missing after going into a bog on a dare with two other boys to search for a “monster,” she is desperate to help find him. After the adoptive couple are discovered tied up in their home, telling a terrifying story of a deaf pregnant woman being abducted by a man wearing a butterfly mask, Detective Inspector Cormac O’Brien and Detective Sergeant Barbara Neely fear a repeat of a disturbing case from twenty years earlier, when a charismatic leader calling himself the Shepherd, lured poor pregnant girls into his enigmatic cult. Though allegations of baby smuggling were never proven, he’d been put away on other charges. But then they learn that the Shepherd has recently been released from prison.

What about you? What have you been doing this week? What are you reading?