A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series. Fast-talking, backstab

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James Figueras, a young art critic; his girlfriend, high school English teacher Berenice Hollis; Jacques Debierue, the artist; and the making of a murderer.

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