A Trick of the Light, Ali Carter
A Trick of the Light, Ali Carter
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A Trick of the Light

Author: Ali Carter

Narrator: Joanna Bending

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2021


Synopsis

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak, artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as an art tutor at a Scottish country house will prove a distraction. But Susie soon realises she has bigger problems than teaching her eclectic mix of students to draw a Highland cow. Beneath the beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the grandeur of the Auchen Laggan Tosh estate lie hidden secrets. Can Susie work out what exactly is going on before it’s too late? And can anyone be trusted?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan

Artist Susie Mahl is glad to pick up a gig acting as art tutor at a painting week in a remote Scottish castle, getting to know her eight students and, of course, the Earl and Countess who are relying on courses to make some of the money they need for renovations. Susie is invitied to see the four va......more

Goodreads review by Diane

took a lot of time to get nowhere. The solution to the "mystery" was obvious about 30% of the way into the book. The attempt to write a scots accent for some of the characters was farcical not to mention the insistence that certain things are termed Scottish when in fact it is scots. has the author......more

Goodreads review by Jill

Struggled with this one, mainly because it takes a long time to go absolutely nowhere. Zero tension or any real mystery, other than one that was obvious from about ten chapters in. Main character was unengaging, and the author changed tense constantly. Lots of cliches about Scotland from a writer wh......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I’m not sure how one could write a mystery with no suspense, but that is what this book was. I had no idea what the mystery was supposed to be until they “solved” it at the very end. Susie was cool, but this book was not a mystery. It was more a week in her life.......more