Trick of the Eye - A Novel

Zusatztext "A sleek and villainous tale." Informationen zum Autor Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the New York Times bestselling author of Mortal Friends , The Witches' Hammer , Social Crimes , and Trick of the Eye , as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign-affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, D.C. Klappentext For artist Faith Cromwell, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on the daughter who was brutally murdered in the house a decade earlier—one so intense that it jeopardizes Faith's own sense of mind. And as she pieces together the details of the grisly crime scene that shadows the house, Faith slowly discovers that she herself plays the starring role in a bizarre and dangerous charade. Sophisticated and chilling, Trick of the Eye explores a world where evil tarnishes privilege, and nothing is what it appears to be. Zusammenfassung Another high-society thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Trick of the Eye is a tale of art, intrigue, and murder in a world where evil tarnishes privilege and nothing is what it appears to be.   Trompe l’oeil artist Faith Cromwell is hired to paint the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate, but her patron is obsessed with the long-unsolved murder of a daughter, and soon Faith begins to piece together the details of the grisly, shocking crime.   The deeper Faith delves into the house’s mystery, the more she realizes that she has inadvertently stepped into the starring role of a bizarre, and quite possibly fatal, charade.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Hitchcock Jane Stanton
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2013
• EAN: 9780062259219
• ISBN: 978-0-06-225921-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators