A Trick of the Light
- Author David Ashton
- Narrator David Ashton
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 15 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries.
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What to expect
THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR McLEVY.
'DAVID ASHTON IMPECCABLY EVOKES EDINBURGH' Financial Times
ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times
'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox
'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society
'A REAL PAGE-TURNER' Sunday Post
'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald
Halloween 1881, Edinburgh, and the dead are restless.
In respectable Edinburgh society, beautiful young American spiritualist, Sophia Adler, is causing a furore with her dramatic séances. But the ghosts of the past seem hell-bent on retribution.
Inspector James McLevy finds his investigations distracted by more earthly concerns when Muriel Grierson, an outwardly genteel widow is robbed at home. Her knight in shining armour - one Arthur Conan Doyle, recently graduated from medical school - is keen to learn from such a master of detection as the renowned inspector, but McLevy is less sure that he requires a new acolyte.
A vicious murder occurs with evidence of supernatural strength and violence. Treachery revenged from a battle long ago. All roads lead to Sophia Adler and the inspector becomes involved with one of the most dangerous women he has ever encountered.
THE INSPECTOR MCLEVY SERIES
1 - Shadow of the Serpent
2 - Fall from Grace
3 - A Trick of the Light
4 - Nor Will He Sleep
(P)2016 John Murray Press
Critics Review
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PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEVY SERIES
Financial Times
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town’s steep cobbles and dark corners -
An intriguing Victorian story… elegant and convincing
The Times -
McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson
Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor -
David Ashton’s writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and his narrative grabs you
The Sherlock Holmes Society -
Ashton’s McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own
Scotsman -
A real page-turner
Sunday Post
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