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Title	:	Trick of the Dark
Author	:	Val McDermid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 397 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2011 by Bywater Books (first published 2010)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller

Trick of the Dark

Val McDermid

Paperback | Pages: 397 pages

Rating: 3.54 | 2630 Users | 353 Reviews

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"My mother disappeared when I was sixteen. It was the best thing that could have happened to me.
When I say that out loud, people look at me out if the corners of their eyes, as if I've transgressed some fundamental taboo. But it's the truth. I'm not hiding some complicated grief reaction.
My mother disappeared when I was sixteen. The guards had walked away from the prison leaving the door unlocked. And I emerged blinking into the sunlight."

I wanted to keep this book for a while and read it when I needed a solid mystery to delve in and occupy my mind for a spell - when I needed something dependable.
But just looking at the fabulous cover of the paperback edition made me twitch.

This is only my fourth McDermid - I am quickly becoming a fan - and a short way into the story of disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint I got the impression that this book is different. Just a short way into this book I began to wonder if McDermid had an agenda which she wanted the characters in the book to play out.

Trick of the Dark is centred on a mothers suspicion that her daughter is being seduced by a woman of dubious character - or rather one with a dubious past. There is no police work, no obvious crime, but one "obvious" suspect.

Strangely enough, the story and the character had soon drawn me in and it took no time at all to want to figure out the mystery surrounding the main suspect. As mentioned, there is little in the way of procedural policing. Most of the book is based on good old sleuthing and psychology, or as I would call it "following a hunch" but I really liked it.
There is also some humor in this, and I hope some of the giggles I got reflect some of McDermott's own sense of fun.

The only criticism - and, having read some of the scathing reviews this book received, this is only a slight criticism - is that the dialogues were too stilted to be believable. Yes, the conversations between the characters carried most of the story, but some of the conversations, even hard ones to have, were way too polished.

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Original Title:	Trick of the Dark
ISBN:	1932859829 (ISBN13: 9781932859829)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian Mystery (2012)

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Ratings: 3.54 From 2630 Users | 353 Reviews

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I usually enjoy anything by Val McDermid, but for the first time I was a little disappointed. The story was thin, too contrived to be totally convincing. Richard Russo's wonderful novels proved to me that I don't actually have to like the main character in order to enjoy a book, but actively disliking McDermid's heroine did make it hard for me to enjoy this story. Charlie Flint goes through the novel contemplating being unfaithful to her partner. Considering the starting point of the novel was

The last four sentences are worthy of Alfred Hitchcock.This is a dense book, if I can use that term. Four hundred pages of a tightly written plot, even though at times it may not seem like it.Charlie Flint is a clinical psychiatrist, specializing in psychological profiling, who has been suspended from practice pending an investigation of her testimony at a recent trial. She gets sucked into a murder investigation at the behest of a former college tutor. The question is whether or not a person

Dr. Charlie Flint is having a bad time. She refused to help wrongly convict a man who went on to kill four women and her medical license is under review. She loves her wife, a dentist, but feels tempted by the attentions of a flirtatious self-help expert. When her former Oxford tutor asks her to investigate her daughter's lover, Jay, a wealthy entrepreneur the professor suspects may have had a hand in the murder of her daughter's husband as well as other business rivals, Charlie takes the case,

The book would have been better if the author would have cut most of the lesbian romances and just written a good murder. I figured out the plot before it was revealed and this spoiled the ending for me. Val mcDermid usually writes better books, but this one didn't really make it. Romance and murder mysteries aren't always a good combination.

As I laboured through this tome, I found it very difficult to believe I was reading the great Val McDermid. An uneven mishmash, this couldn't decide whether it was going to evolve into a ridiculously implausible romance, or a so-so crime novel. In the end, it did neither. I just felt like giving Charlie Flint, protagonist, and purportedly Oxford grad, a slap in the head for her crazy infatuation with the enigmatic Lisa. Jay, around whom the novel really centres, is a far more intriguing



I tried one of Val McDermids books a couple of years ago, and could not get on with it. Then this book got good reviews so I tried again. I just dont know why she is so highly rated as a crime novelist. This is simply crime-writing-by-numbers. If it were better written, I wouldnt have minded so much, but the dialogue is hackneyed, the plot is so well sign-posted you could drive a bus through it whats the big appeal here? Anyway, I plodded through the first half, increasingly irritated. About