Things Half in Shadow

Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hold on to your seats, make sure you have pizza delivery on speed dial, make sure you read this over the weekend, if not you better call into work because once you start this book, you're not going to want to put it down!

This book takes place in the late 1800s' in Philadelphia. Edward Clark is a newspaper reporter that writes about crimes for the newspaper. His boss has decided that he should write an article exposing some of the mediums that are in Philly. Edward tries to get out of writing it because he's very happy and content on writing crimes.

Edward attends the seance of one Mrs. Lucy Collins, and from there everything in his comfortable live turns every which way but up. When one of Mrs. Collins's competition dies and the husband has asked for an autopsy, and it's proven that she was actually murdered, everyone in attendance is a suspect. Edward and Mrs. Collins are forced together to solve this murder and clear there good names before the police can have them charged with the murder.

The book itself is very well written and thought out. It's not a book that deals with a lot of seances, ghost, the dead but is actually a murder mystery. There isn't any gruesome descriptions, of ghosts that have been hacked to death or anything like that. This book will grab you once you start reading it and you will find yourself reading it well after you should be asleep, and your still thinking about it as you drift off to sleep, when you wake up you'll want to grab the book instead of the newspaper to read.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves murder mysteries, wants a good story, that is well written, thought out, and fun to read.


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