It’s been a busy few weeks but The Family Shadow is here and is available as a Kindle ebook, paperback and in Kindle Unlimited. It’s a historical mystery with dual timeline suspense and is set on the sweeping Wexford coast in Ireland in the late nineteenth century and also in 2019.
I’ve always loved that area of Wexford. It’s near Curracloe with its seven mile long sandy beach and dunes, backed by Raven Wood, a spine of Corsican pines. Even on summer days, the beach never seems crowded. Around the far bend is the famous Wexford Slobs wildfowl reserve where geese and swans fly in for the winter months.
I hope you’ll enjoy joining Fiona Foley and Archie, the Jack Russell inherited from her father, in the quest to discover what happened to Rosalind all those generations ago.
Here’s the book description:
A Victorian era murder. A modern-day family researcher. Can she solve the century old puzzle of a racehorse trainer’s death and his wife’s disappearance?
Ireland, 1891. Rosalind Thornton only wants to be a perfect mother and spouse. Happy at first to have given her husband the son he longed for, she begins to worry about his increasingly erratic spending and volatile moods. And when his body turns up in the local woods, her guilt remains in question for 130 years…
2019. Fiona Foley needs to put her husband’s betrayal behind her. Offered a chance to get away and recover, the disillusioned history teacher travels to an old rambling house on the sweeping Wexford coast to assist an eccentric descendant of the Thornton family. Fending off a prying journalist intent on digging up dirt, Fiona finds herself in a race to uncover the truth.
As the two women separately untangle a devastating plot, only an old journal full of riddles might be the key to solving the crime.
Can Fiona figure out what really happened on the fateful night Rosalind disappeared forever?
The Family Shadow is a historical mystery novel with long-buried secrets, dual timeline suspense and surprising twists and turns.
More details including store links here
This is the real Curracloe beach with the sand dunes on the right and Raven Wood. The Wexford Slobs wildfowl reserve is around the corner in the distance. It helped to provide inspiration for the novel, ‘The Family Shadow’ and is one of my favourite beaches in Ireland.
Join Fiona Foley on her quest to discover what happened to Rosalind at Ardlackan Lodge in the late nineteenth century.