Friday, September 24, 2021

Book Review: The Artist Vanishes

 


The Artist Vanishes

by Terry Westby-Nunn

Pub Date 01 Apr 2021 

 Penguin Books (SA) 

 General Fiction (Adult)  |  Literary Fiction  |  Mystery & Thrillers



I am reviewing a copy of The Artist Vanishes through Penguin Books (SA) and Netgalley:




Sophie Tugiers is a Cape Town artists who has been missing for several years.   Her mysterious disappearance caused a brief ripple before dissolving into a distant media memory. Sophie’s controversial art made many people feel as if they were being alienated: those who didn’t consider her a sell-out thought her last exhibition was sadistic, and one of her experimental participants had committed suicide.






James Dempster is a jaded filmmaker with a problem with whiskey.  Following a divorce that is acrimonious to say the least and needs a project to that will relaunch his stalled career.  When James discover he has moved into the flat Sophie once rented he finds himself drawn into her sinister tale.




What happened to Sophie?  Where are her friends and enemies hiding.  Once James flat is ransacked and his research Is stolen he realizes his search could lead to his demise.




I give The Artist Vanishes five out of five stars!



Happy Reading!

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