My Thoughts on the Novel, The Family Shadow: Foley Family Mysteries Book One…

This book was good. It wasn’t great, it wasn’t fantastic, it was good.

That being said, I enjoyed the dual timeline and the mystery surrounding it. A man was mysteriously murdered and left in a ditch in Ireland in the 1890s. This man was a thoroughbred horse trainer, a gambler, and a terrible husband. In the present time, the heroine, or the detective, recently split from a terrible husband and a gambler. The parallels, the parallels, the parallels.

The plots moved along in fits and starts, and I found myself easily distracted at many points in the novel. It wasn’t so bad that I wanted to abandon the book, but I usually take less than five days to read a book, especially an excellent one. There was momentum near the end, so that’s a plus.

Unfortunately, I do not plan to continue reading this series; it just doesn’t interest me enough.

My recommendation? Meh. If you enjoy dual storylines and historical mysteries, give it a try; you may enjoy this novel more than I did.