Trick of Light: A Kay Farrow Novel
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Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt.
A shocking and provocative new thriller from the author of the national bestseller The Magician's Tale. Kay Farrow, a color-blind photographer who sees the world in black, white and shades of gray, probes the mysterious death of her beloved mentor on a quest that takes her to the darkest intersections of San Francisco's Mission District.
"Eerie as a midnight walk in the fog," said The New York Times Book Review of David Hunt's The Magician's Tale, "showing us light and dark, truth and deception, reality and illusion, even good and evil, in ways we never imagined." "Hunt mesmerizes with his sleight of hand," praised People magazine, "The book's lingering spell lies in the way its heroine's perspective enables us to see, as if for the first time, her beloved city in all its chiaroscuro splendor."
When distinguished photojournalist Maddy Yamada is struck by a motorcyclist at two in the morning in a seedy area far from her Marina apartment, Kay Farrow's grief is tempered by suspicion, What could have drawn the reclusive Maddy so far from home at such an hour? Kay believes Maddy's work in progress-blurry, abstract images uncharacteristic of a woman famous for her unsparing clarity of vision--holds elusive clues, clues Kay is determined to decipher.
Tracing old photographs and undeveloped film discovered in one of Maddy's cameras, Kay begins to bring into focus Maddy's activities at the time of her death. The territory Kay must cover runs from the back alleys of the Mission to the elite enclaves of Pacific Heights and beyond, to a very private shooting preserve miles north of the city. Lurking in her path is a netherworld of decadence and evil--and evidence that Maddy's death was no accident.
Kay doggedly pursues a winding path to justice, negotiating a labyrinth of debauchery and dark desires.
PRAISE FOR TRICK OF LIGHT:
NEW YORK TIMES:
“Following her own vision (and nudged on by Bayer’s hypnotic prose), Kay Farrow conducts an investigation that goes down some very dark alleys and leads to some very bleak truths. But in the inverted imagery of this strange world, the blacker it gets, the lovelier it looks. The air of dreamlike menace that hovers of Trick Of Light, Bayer’s sequel to The Magician’s Tale, transforms San Francisco from a daytime city of brilliant color and clarity into an eerie netherworld.”
HOUSTON CHRONICLE:
“Beautiful, magical, treacherous. The story unreels like a film noir, full of black-and-white images, grays and shadows....Remarkable....”
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER:
“Bayer’s San Francisco is not the tourist City by the Bay, but its dark underbelly. The evil that confronts Kay Farrow is built up step by painful step. Nothing rings false in the terrific Trick Of Light.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
New York Times best-selling author WILLIAM BAYER has written numerous crime novels. His books have won several prizes, including the "best novel" Edgar, have been published in fifteen foreign languages, and his Janek series novels have been made into seven television movies all broadcast on CBS. He and his wife, cookbook author, Paula Wolfert, lived in the Sonoma Valley in Northern California.
William Bayer
William Bayer is the author of twenty novels, including the New York Times bestsellers, Switch, Pattern Crimes and Punish Me With Kisses. He has won the Best Novel Edgar, the Lambda Literary Award, and is a two-time winner of the French Prix Mystere de la Critique.
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