A Trick of the Light

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

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

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

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