Loved the NYC detective Sigrid Harald series. Every one was top notch plot and interesting characters.
From the dust jacket: "Losing a fellow officer in a shoot-out is enough to rattle Sigrid's cool, controlled demeanor. Discovering that her lover, famous artist Oscar Nauman, has also been killed devastates her. She withdraws from her colleagues, her police career, her life. But it is art she cannot escape: Oscar has left her his paintings worth millions, and galleries are clamoring to sell them.
Just as the early Italian masters painted a wash of vermilion over green to produce the warm flesh tones of their madonnas-only to have time fade the red to leave a deathlike tint behind-Sigrid begins to see through the vibrant surface of New York's art world to the interplay of revenge, greed, and power beneath. These are motives she recognizes from her police work as catalysts for murder. And when a shocking homicide occurs, it hits close to home for Sigrid, implicating Oscar's friends and fellow artists in the crime.
Her desire to find the killer now puts Sigrid back on the job and out on the street. More than justice is at stake: whether she can still cut it on the force and whether she will ever again dare to love hangs in the balance."
Just as the early Italian masters painted a wash of vermilion over green to produce the warm flesh tones of their madonnas-only to have time fade the red to leave a deathlike tint behind-Sigrid begins to see through the vibrant surface of New York's art world to the interplay of revenge, greed, and power beneath. These are motives she recognizes from her police work as catalysts for murder. And when a shocking homicide occurs, it hits close to home for Sigrid, implicating Oscar's friends and fellow artists in the crime.
Her desire to find the killer now puts Sigrid back on the job and out on the street. More than justice is at stake: whether she can still cut it on the force and whether she will ever again dare to love hangs in the balance."
Eighth in the series featuring NYPD Lt Sigrid Harald. The story opens with Harald despondent over the death of her SO, the famous painter Oscar Nauman. Nauman has left everything he owns to Harald, who is now besieged by gallery owners and museum curators who want his artworks. But the art world is not without its intrigues and when one of the gallery owners is killed, Harald first needs an alibi and then finds herself working the investigation. As usual there is a sub-plot with the other detectives involving parents who cannot believe their layabout son committed suicide.
There's more emotional involvement for Harald this time around, as you'd expect from the circumstances. Maron has brought her from a cool dispassionate person into someone who's still a logical thinker but can actually feel emotions like everyone else. But it's still mainly a police procedural. Lots of shifting POVs. I liked the WWII art bits (although you could see that one coming from a long way off) and I liked the end of the bit with B'Nita.
There's more emotional involvement for Harald this time around, as you'd expect from the circumstances. Maron has brought her from a cool dispassionate person into someone who's still a logical thinker but can actually feel emotions like everyone else. But it's still mainly a police procedural. Lots of shifting POVs. I liked the WWII art bits (although you could see that one coming from a long way off) and I liked the end of the bit with B'Nita.
