Trick of the Eye A Novel [Paperback]

Another high-society thriller fromNew York Timesbestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock,Trick of the Eyeis 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.
 
LikeSocial CrimesandOne Dangerous Lady,Trick of the Eyeis another highly sophisticated and deeply compelling mystery from master writer Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
 

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 Eyeexplores a world where evil tarnishes privilege, and nothing is what it appears to be.

Hitchocks mysteries are savvy social satires and well-constructed clocks, ticking down to nail-biting climaxes.Simultaneously luscious and ladylike. Pure pleasure for psychological-suspense fans.A tautly controlled narrative voice and a prose style that transcends genre key the action in this gothic thriller about a successful trompe loeil artist commissioned to work at a grand old estate onl,