Juliet Kipper, a gifted painter, is strangled in the LA gallery where her first solo show has opened to critical acclaim, and Milo Sturgis takes on the murder investigation as a favour to an old friend. He consults Alex Delaware, who, researching parallels with other deaths, looks for artists killed when on the verge of a breakthrough or comeback. And he finds two others.
The investigation points to a gruesome, sadistic pattern of death, taking Milo and Alex into the dark side of the art world, and Alex's ex-lover Robin into terrible danger.
- ISBN10 0345452569
- ISBN13 9780345452566
- Publish Date 30 December 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2023
- Imprint Ballantine Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 432
- Language English