A Trick of the Light: A Highland Mystery featuring Susie Mahl

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"Pet portraitist Susie Mahl has to use all her artistic know-how to get to the bottom of a fiendish Scottish mystery 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 its too late And can anyone be trusted"

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'Carter has created a character Agatha Christie would be proud of.'

The writersdepiction of the various techniques used in painting cleverly deflects the readers attention from the puzzle of the mysterious Landseer paintingswhile at the same time showing how a forgery may be detected And the absence of violence, let alone bloodshed, will reassure those who are looking for stories written in the recently revived cosy form especially one with occasionalcomic toucheslike this one.

'Susie Mahl is a welcome new detective: witty, warm and very inquisitive.'

Its usually easier and more productive not to be fettered by too much reality The notable exception, as Ali Carters third outing for her amateur sleuth Susie Mahl neatly shows, is the detective story Of course, its appeal is that of the log fire and the Labrador in the basket.

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Ali Carter was born in Scotland and read art history at St Andrews. In 2011, she had a catastrophic cycling accident, and after a long recovery decided to follow her passion and become an artist. This experience serves as the basis for her novels, A Brush with Death (2018) and The Colours of Murder (2019).