Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 2/9/2019 + 1032 more book reviews

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.

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