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Good way to start the new year was reading Kate Morton's "The Distant Hours." Have never read her before but I may check out other books that she's written. This was a mystery that I actually didn't figure out until pretty close to the end of the novel. A letter is delivered after 50 years of being hidden in an attic by a drunken mailman. He's passed on and his daughter finds the bag of mail. The mail is delivered and it brought a shock to at least on of the recipient. This leads to a trip to the Milderhurst castle and the writer of the well known classic, "The True History of the Mud Man." The story's time frame went back and forth between 1941 and 1992.