Robert Goddard - Caught in the Light

review by showhost
this book was published in 1998. I had read one by this author before but I can't remember what it was called or if I liked it or not. This was a complicated, first class, suspense novel.
Ian is married with a young teenage daughter. He is a photographer and doing a shoot in Vienna. Into the frame appears an attractive, young lady in a red coat, who is furious about him taking her picture. An affair ensues over the next few days. Ian falls in love and goes home to UK to tell his wife their marriage is over.
Ian waits for his lover, Marion, in England at their arranged rendezvous but she never shows. He worries that her jealous husband may have hurt her. He sets out to find her but the mysterious Marion, never existed.
His search takes him to a psychotherapist who was seeing a lady who fits Marions description. This lady has flashbacks to another era, the 1817's where she is another person, unhappily married to a cruel husband but with her scientific knowledge is one of the pioneers of early photography.
False leads, subterfuge, murder and arranged encounters all lead to Ians downfall and puts his family and associates at risk. The suspense and complicated plot keeps you enthralled and the flashbacks to that bygone era just as enthralling.
Recommended read.