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I really enjoyed this historical mystery with ghosts. Delia Martin is being haunted by one very persistent ghost. Delia returns to San Francisco and finds herself linked to a serial killer who has returned after a 30 year absence. The ghost is a link to the killing spree but Delia can't communicate with her until she visits Dora Bobet who is a medium.

Also pursuing the case of the serial killer is Police Lieutenant Gabe Ryan who is trying to solve the case his father couldn't solve 30 years earlier. Gabe and Delia meet because his Sargent Jack is engaged to her best friend and foster sister Sadie.

Delia has also returned home because Sadie's mother - the woman who became her guardian when her parents died in the San Francisco earthquake and fire - is dying and she wants to support her friend.

I loved the San Francisco setting. I thought the way the relationship grew between Delia and Gabe was nicely done. I thought the mystery was nicely intriguing. I found both the serial killer and the various ghosts nicely creepy.

This is the first book of a trilogy and I intend to read the rest.


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Delia Shadow Jaime Lee Moyer 9780765331823 Books Reviews

I've been thinking for a while how to rate and describe Delia's Shadow. I've decided it would be best to sort out the good points and bad.

The Good
Jaime Lee Moyer's experience in poetry gives her an excellent grasp of how words interact with each other on large scale. Her descriptions and word flow are among the best I've seen in a debut novel, though there are spots that could have used just a little more tweaking; in a sea of strong linguistics, any small blemish can make a horribly big deal of itself, sticking out on the page like a fleck of poop on otherwise lovely China.

Beyond the bare basics, Moyer's characters are wonderfully deep and real. Most of them are likable and sympathetic, and perhaps most satisfying, they care about manners. Not being an avid reader of historical fiction I'm not sure how big a role that plays, but it's so refreshing to see characters who have some social standards and care about how they affect other people, even if it's people they don't care for.

The bad
Most of the conflict outside of the police investigation is personal and too subtle to create the suspense necessary to drive the story along. The plot is well-paced, but thin, with very little really going wrong, and feels like it drags on more than it really does. The characters should always, always come first in a story, but when the majority of the plot conflict depends on their emotions, you can have an unbalanced book that's hard to get through. I'm normally a quick reader and it would embarrass me to admit how long it took me to read this one.

Having said that, it was enjoyable enough that I would recommend it to those who like ghost stories and plots focused mostly on the emotional lives of the characters. It almost seems in Delia's Shadow that the investigation of a brutal serial killer is an accident. Luckily, Moyer's writing is not heavy-handed, so the realization that so little is really happening dawns on the reader more slowly.

Moyer says on her blog that she's currently working on more novels. My hope is that she puts more effort into having things go wrong in the plot. (I think she might suffer from the same problem I and many inexperienced novelists have -- it can be very difficult to force bad things to happen to your beloved characters.) If she can learn to balance her excellent characters and descriptive powers with a truly suspenseful plot, she has the potential to be a superb novelist.
As a rule I don’t read (or watch) anything about serial killers. I find it too dark, too depressing. I need something happy, something light in my reading. I don’t have anything against blood and gore; I do tend to read Urban Fantasy, after all. But I need humor in my books.
So while I enjoyed reading the book, I wish it was a bit less death centered.
My other problem was me not being sure how authentic the portrait of the historical period was. I’m not saying it not accurate, but I have little experience with books about this time.
Mostly it felt like modern novel. Set in 1916 for the costumes and mediums sake. But maybe I’m wrong.
What I liked about the books was 2 main characters. Both Delia and Gabe are sweet souls. Nice and dedicated. The romance between two was nicely natural.
I don’t understand why the author chose to use 1st person POV for Delia and the 3rd for Gabe, but I got used to it quickly enough; so I wasn’t bothered by it.
I will continue with the series, I think. Just not too soon.
I really enjoyed this historical mystery with ghosts. Delia Martin is being haunted by one very persistent ghost. Delia returns to San Francisco and finds herself linked to a serial killer who has returned after a 30 year absence. The ghost is a link to the killing spree but Delia can't communicate with her until she visits Dora Bobet who is a medium.

Also pursuing the case of the serial killer is Police Lieutenant Gabe Ryan who is trying to solve the case his father couldn't solve 30 years earlier. Gabe and Delia meet because his Sargent Jack is engaged to her best friend and foster sister Sadie.

Delia has also returned home because Sadie's mother - the woman who became her guardian when her parents died in the San Francisco earthquake and fire - is dying and she wants to support her friend.

I loved the San Francisco setting. I thought the way the relationship grew between Delia and Gabe was nicely done. I thought the mystery was nicely intriguing. I found both the serial killer and the various ghosts nicely creepy.

This is the first book of a trilogy and I intend to read the rest.