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Funny Cartoon Style Photo Booth - Make You Friends and Family Happy To See The Cartoonish Characters

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This is an complete entertainment and for fun app. You can replace your face or your friend's with...

Photo Recipe Step by Step - Fáciles y Saludables Recetas de Dieta Mediterránea para Toda Ocasión

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★★★ No. 1 Healthy Food ★★★ Most Popular Recipes Mediterranean Food ★★★ Feel the...

Pic Eraser Remover HD - Background Transparent Photo Editor, Cut Out Images Path Outline

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Pic Eraser Remover helps to remove the background of any photo and maintain transparency with just...

Mosaic Blur Effects Filter Pro - Censor Pixelate Photo Editor: Touch to Show & Hide Selected Area

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Mosaic Blur Effects Filter lets you make a part of the photo mosaic with a touch of your finger. ...

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Meditating Over a Photo (with Mahsa Vahdat / Mighty Sam McClain, Mahsa Vahdat, Mighty Sam Mcclain) by Mighty Sam Mcclain / Mahsa Vahdat

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ClareR (5996 KP) rated Snap Shot in Books

Oct 25, 2019

Snap Shot

Marilyn Todd | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller

8.0

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An enjoyable Victorian mystery

Julia McAllister is a female photographer in 1895 who works for herself - which is a struggle in England at this time, as she would have had no legal rights. She pretends to her clients that she is working for a male photographer, but in reality he left her the business when he died. So, in order to make ends meet she finds work taking ‘French Style’ photos. These were risqué pornographic photos. Julia makes sure her models are comfortable with what they’re doing and that they’re well paid. She feels responsible for these young women.

When three of them are found murdered, and Julia is visited by an Inspector Collingwood asking questions because her stamp is on the back of the photos found with these women, Julia is devastated. Devastated that she is in the frame, and devastated that she has lost women who she considers to be friends. So Julia sets out to find the killer herself, because she has secrets that she doesn’t want anyone finding out.

This book is pretty jam packed with dead bodies, if I’m honest. The dead models and two unconnected men. Julia is involved with finding the perpetrators of these deaths too. So if you don’t like dead bodies, you’re going to struggle with this one! Although it’s not graphic in any way. It’s not a salacious book - the photos aren’t really described in any great detail: the making of them is just a part of the story.

I liked Julia. She is a caring character who looks after her models, her neighbours, and she even gives a home to a street urchin. I found the photography descriptions (taking photos and developing them) really interesting, and I thought the setting was really well described: the sights and sounds of a busy urban Victorian England especially. This is a very enjoyable book, and one for those who enjoy an easy reading mystery.

Many thanks to Sapere Books for sending me my copy to read and honestly review.