Summer

12 March 2011

ARSENIC AND OLD PAINT: Art Lover's Mystery - Hailey Lind

From the back of the book: Both sides of the art world....
Former art forger Annie Kincaid has been operating a legitimate decorative painting business for quite, but memories are long in the art world. Now, with the blessing of the FBI Art Squad, Annie's using her underworld connections to boost her new art investigation business, where she's partnered with none other than ex-art thief/love interest Michael X. Johnson. At first it's strictly business, but when she stumbles across a body in an exclusive Nob Hill men's club, and an insurance adjuster asks her to find a stolen (and forged) erotic painting, and then her Uncle Anton is attacked, Annie's on the trail of more than just art. This time, she's looking for justice.
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Oh, how I love this series. I would love to be an artist like Annie, I'd love to live in San Francisco and work in a place like her studio. I love my life, but it's fun to imagine what it would be like to know how to faux finish a room to look like a medieval dungeon and know a real Monet from a forged one.
What's not to love about a book that features a posh men's club, a dead body, an artist is found poisoned from paint, secret tunnels, and a sex club? And the sex club part of the story had to be my favorite for the.....
Five faux finish beans.....

2 comments:

Aurian said...

I don't like the cover, so I think I won't be picking up this one.

Vickie said...

Aurian: The cover is a painting that gets addressed in the book. It is a little ick, isn't it?