True Image - Softcover

Statham, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1998494039 ISBN 13: 9781998494033

Publisher: Blue Denim Press Inc, 2024

Synopsis

In True Image, aspiring artist and amateur detective Maud Gibbons receives her first major portrait commission. She should be ecstatic. The fee secured by her new agent is extraordinary, but Maud soon realizes it's no ordinary commission.Her client has enough status and wealth to get whatever she wants. And what the eccentric Mrs. Veronica Barrington wants is to have her portrait painted from life by a talented female artist willing to live and work at Altica, her summer estate. When death comes to Altica, it's not money but the combined talents of an amateur detective and an autistic twelve-year-old girl with super powers, that uncovers the truth among the lies

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About the Author

Author of The Painter's Craft, editor and contributor for six Hill Spirits anthologies, Susan Statham was born in Toronto and raised Fredericton N.B. and Ottawa. A graduate of Algonquin College she worked in a children's psychiatric hospital. Returning to Toronto, she raised two sons and worked in special education. While attending the National Portrait Academy she travelled to Italy for a workshop at the Cecil Graves studio and by special invitation, to New York to visit the Art Students league. With a major in psychology, and courses in advanced fiction writing, she completed her degree at the University of Waterloo and obtained a job as a school librarian. Moving to the Cobourg area, Susan taught adult classes in both writing and painting from her home studio, the Cobourg Library and Fleming College. For Canada's sesquicentennial, Susan was commissioned to paint twelve of Canada's prime ministers for a series called The Nation Builders. the 2021 she received Cobourg's Distinguished Civic Award for Arts and Culture. Susan is the president of the Cobourg Art Club, a past president of the Spirit of the Hills Arts Association and Chair of the Spirit of the Hills Writers Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Denim Press Inc
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1998494039
• ISBN 13: 9781998494033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232