Finished To Catch a Thief by David Dodge. Enjoyable suspense mystery, but definitely of its time (casual Roma racist stereotypes, side couple with an age gap we might side-eye today). Definitely a more methodical, serious story than the movie, which I watched after.

Bingo squares: Older than You (1952), What's Yours Is Mine, Eazy Breazy Read-zie, Now a Major Motion Picture, (alt) A Change in Perspective

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I tried reading The Gathering by C.J. Tudor, a horror police procedural in a world where vampires publicly exist, because I like horror and police procedurals, but... all I did was remind myself that vampires just really aren't my thing most of the time. The writing was compelling, so I might go back to it at some point, or try something else by that author.

Started The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.