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new York Times Bestselling Author Elizabeth Lowell Creates Another Masterpiece Of Excitement And Chills, Passion And Surprise die In Plain Sight when Lacey Quinn Inherits The Striking Landscapes Done By Her Late, Much-loved Grandfather, She Believes They Are As Good As Anything Hanging In Museums. But The Paintings Now In Her Possession Are More Than The Works Of A Talented Master. They Are Anguished Voices From The Grave...crying Murder! lacey Begins Researching Her Grandfather's Past — And Is Rocked Almost Immediately By A Strange Series Of Violent Events. Someone Wants To Steal Her Inheritance, To Reduce The Paintings To Unrecognizable Ashes In A Suspicious Blaze. Someone Wants To Prevent Lacey From Examining Her Grandfather's Work Too Closely...by Any Means Necessary. ian Lapstrake, A Security Specialist, Has Taken An Interest In Lacey's Inheritance...and In Her. Troubled By What He Sees, He Becomes Lacey's Shadow, As Her Search For Answers Leads Them Both Down An Ever-darkening Road Paved With Lies, Blood, And Devastating Secrets. publishers Weekly heavy On Romance And Light On Mystery, Lowell's Latest Romantic Thriller (after running Scared), Set In The Art World, Promises Fireworks, Then Fizzles Out. 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