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Die in plain sight

ISBN: 0060504129
ISBN: 9780060504120
ISBN: 0060504110
Physical Description: print 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, [2003]
Copyright: &copy;2003

Lowell, Elizabeth 1944- (author.).

Summary: Art buyer and struggling southern California artist Lacey Quinn shows a few of her grandfather's paintings to renowned artist Susa Donovan, in the area for a charity event. The paintings are mostly landscapes, but also include a few samples from his dark later work, including detailed depictions of murder and death by fire and drowning. Believing that the landscapes are really the work of famous California plein air painter Lewis Marten, Susa asks Lacey to have them professionally appraised. Lacey resists Susa's pleas, fearing that her grandfather may have been guilty of forgery, but she discovers something far more complicated and horrifying. The murders her grandfather depicted actually took place, and as Lacey digs into her grandfather's past, strangely similar murder attempts and arsons begin cropping up.