Reviews for In A True Light

The average rating for In A True Light based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-19 00:00:00 Nancy Keidel I enjoyed this literary thriller of a mystery a lot despite my ex-library copy having been defaced by a pedantic reader who had gone through and crossed out every usage of American English and written the British equivalent in pencil. Which was infuriating because Harvey had set half the novel in New York and had (correctly) used US vernacular accurately (characters would "go to the bathroom" while my pedantic previous reader had crossed that out and written "toilet/loo." Arrggh! Thank you dear pedant, I could have worked that out for myself by the context... but anyway, hopefully you'll get a chance to read an undefiled copy and if you do, you'll be treated to a fairly conventional thriller that becomes unputdownable if you are into jazz or, like me, painting. Also, it was nice to see a protagonist in his 60s, an age usually treated by storytellers as comic, or tragic, but rarely heroic. Good stuff. Download my starter library for free here - - and receive my monthly newsletter with book recommendations galore for the Japanophile/crime fiction/English teacher in all of us.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-06-13 00:00:00 David Anible A slow, melancholy crime novel. There's detective work done, but it mostly goes to waste and its a corrupt world out there, especially true for the business of high end art sales (not fiction!). The artist and art forger Sloane pushes through to the end and finds a bit of peace and happiness at the end. The use of an artist, and not a detective was an interesting mashup, I think a more conventional approach would have been too dark and boring. I'm not that familiar with most of the painters of the period mentioned, I did spend some time looking at the women artists mentioned by Harvey in the acknowledgements, some work was nice but it was mostly abstracts which I don't care for. An interesting read once for me, but I don't think I can read this sort of thing too often.