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Caught In The Light [Kindle Edition]

Robert Goddard (Author)
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A hugely engrossing read from a master storyteller.

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On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times and, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? And where is the woman he met in Vienna?Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard’s most cunning to date.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 660 KB
  • Print Length: 450 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0552162973
  • Publisher: Transworld Digital (30 Mar 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003JDCT4U
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #13,994 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Not up to his best 21 July 1999
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Format:Paperback
This really frustrated me, I love Goddard when he's good he writes the most satisfying thrillers with a link to a past which is not all it seems. Well, the best bits about this were the parts about the unkown photographic pioneer. I kept thinking wow, if only this had happened - then I felt really let down because the book was not actually about that at all, but a petty act of revenge. Please, Robert go back to the big canvases of Painting the Darkness.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A GOOD READ 26 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
This is a typical Goddard.

Very easy to read, hard to put down, but as usual leaves you vaguely unsatisfied.

I have had this feeling with all of his books I have read (must be at least six or eight).

They are beautifully researched, skillfully written and the plotting is obviously something Goddard prides himself on (perhaps too much so), the atmosphere is always well rendered and you read and you read and you don't sleep and you are late to work and spend hours on the loo, and you get to the end usually in about 36 hours, and think hmm well, ok

I would always recommend Goddard to non-Goddarders, as well worth reading but I wouldn't wax quite as lyrical as some of your other reviewers.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Robert Goddard has been recommended to me by several readers. Caught in the Light is the first one of his I have tried. I thought it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good by a long way. Goddard seemed to be trying to run with two plots at once and they just don't gel. The extraordinary behaviour of the characters out for revenge is just so over the top as to be totally unbelievable - distinct shades of paranoid conspiracy theory brought to life! Some of his characterisation is very superficial and unbelievable, the characters being distorted to suit the plot, which is never a good way to develop a credible story. The ending goes on forever as if Goddard isn't sure where to stop. I shall try another of his novels just in case this one was a bummer, but currently I am not impressed.
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caught in the light
I have read this book before and I really am enjoying it the second time around, the main character Ian
Jarrett really has a complex life and keeps you guessing right up til... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mrs. Amanda R. Newman
Not his best ...
'Caught in the Light', briefly, concerns Ian Jarrett, a forty-something photographer who, while on an assingment in Venice, meets a strange and beautiful woman. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2010 by Paul Eccles
Complex,taught thriller.
I found this to be a highly enjoyable, complex, taught thriller. Nothing is quite how it seems and the story-line genuinely keeps you guessing right to the end. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2009 by The singing strad
Goddard does it again
This is story of a photography Ian,who meets a mystery women in Vienna and then the story begins. Didn't think i would like this one took a few pages to get into but I totally... Read more
Published on 9 July 2008 by mrs waters
Dark, Disturbing and Excellent!
At this moment in time, I am disappointed because I have read all of Robert Goddard's novels and I eagerly await 'Name To A Face'. Read more
Published on 18 May 2007 by Bathsheba
Light entertainment
Ian Jarret, a photographer, was taking pictures in Vienna when he came across the figure of a woman dressed in boots, overcoat, gloves, scarf and fur-trimmed hat. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by HORAK
Goddard,s darkest tale of revenge and redemption.
'Caught in the light'was published in 1998,Robert Goddard has come close with 'Days without Number'(2003)and his latest' Sight Unseen' but personally 'Caught in the Light' is his... Read more
Published on 27 May 2005 by R. A. Brown
I was caught in the light of Robert Goddard
This was my first Robert Goddard. I'm now a huge fan of this great author. Always a good read. I look forward to his novels with anticipation.
Published on 13 Feb 2004 by Diana Rodell
Brilliant & Complex
Robert Goddard to me is simply the best (and most literate) thriller/mystery writer on the market today. Read more
Published on 14 May 2001 by C. Kuschel-Toerber
Absorbing read but ultimately unsatifying
This book certainly draws you in and is difficult to put down at times. However, as you get nearer the end you realise the hero is just going to blunder his way through without... Read more
Published on 20 July 1999
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