The Family Man

​The Family Man
Author Anna Willett
 
I chose to read this novel as part of the Blackthorn Book Tour.  I was intrigued as soon as I started reading it.  ​

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Within just a few pages the story starts to grab you.  The next thing you know, you are side by side with a determined detective trying to unravel a complicated case.  At first it seems as though the case will end up with so many others in the Cold Case files, but then things start to change.  Interviews provide answers.  And more questions.  Questions produce leads.  Leads form an investigation, pulling you down a path of personal, psychological and diabolical secrets, lies and atrocities that, in their ripple effect, happen to leave just the kind of clues that our detective will need to follow to solve her case.

Author, Anna Willett

This was an excellent novel to read.  It was gripping but highly detailed and carefully woven together.  This means that the reader really needs to be able to pay attention (at least for me).  This would not have been a novel I could read while reading another fully engaging story.  This story was so attentively entwined that every little detail counts for a full understanding of the story at its real value.  If you just breeze through it, yeah, you’ll still probably enjoy it.  But if you really take the time to read it you could actually almost escape into the story and characters and experience the investigation and the investigator’s life, up close and personal.

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For anyone who loves crime stories, especially murder mysteries, this is right up your alley.  At an average length it’s not a book that’s going to take months of time investment and with some kind of important detail of piece of information coming at you at a very constant pace, this book reads fairly quickly.  
 
There were certainly parts that had me more enthralled than others but the whole novel was interesting and captivating.  And I thought it was an excellent and refreshing take on the murder mystery plot line.  So, this was definitely worth the read.  I also have a feeling that if I were to read it again I would catch even more detail, experience, links, emotion and like it just that much more.  It seems to me that this could very well be the kind of novel that even though you know the ending, you can still read it again and be entertained.
 
RATINGS
5/5 Stars