Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Caught in the Light
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Robert Goddard
Class/Genre: Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Henry Holt, Apr 1999, $26.00, 342 pp.
Ian Jarrett enjoys his work as a photographer. His current assignment has him in Vienna where by sheer luck he meets and falls in love with Marian Esguard. They agree to soon rendezvous in England.
Ian returns home to inform his spouse and daughter that he found someone else and is leaving them. Ian journeys to meet Marian, but she fails to show up at their pre-arranged spot. Ian begins to search for his beloved, only to meet Dr. Daphne Sanger, a psychotherapist who is also seeking Marian. Daphne explains to Ian that Marian is her missing patient. Marian believes she is the reincarnation of a nineteenth century woman who may have discovered photography a decade before Fox receives credit for the accomplishment. Ian continues his present day search by looking into the past even though he knows there may be a bitter ending when he finds what he seeks.
Internationally renowned best selling author Robert Goddard scribes a wonderful blending of a contemporary amateur sleuth tale with elements of a historical mystery. The modern day mystery is well designed due to the desperate antics of Ian. However, it is the loving insight into the history of photography that turns CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT into necessary reading experience.
Harriet Klausner
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