The Killing Art: A Novel Of Suspense by Jonathan Santlofer

Publisher: "Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co", 2005
ISBN: 0060541075
ID: S00010406

"Hardcover with jacket not price clipped, signed by author on title page, 1st edition, 1st printing, complete numberline including the number 1, guaranteed to be a trade (retail) edition and not a bookclub or ex-library. Book Condition: Fine - tight square, white pages, no markings of any kind. Jacket Condition: Fine Comes in Mylar Jacket cover. Fine book in fine dust jacket, F/F. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for authors signature."

Price in US $ 31.50

Summary: History and fiction collide with deadly consequences in the third Kate McKinnon novel—a story of bitter revenge, where the past invades the present and a decades-old secret proves fatal. Kate McKinnon has lived many lives, from Queens cop to Manhattan socialite, television art historian, and the woman who helped the NYPD capture the Death Artist and the Color Blind killer. But that's the past. Now, devastated by the death of her husband, Kate is attempting to quietly rebuild her life as a single woman. Gone are the Park Avenue penthouse and designer clothes. Now it's a funky Chelsea loft, downtown fashion, and even a hip new haircut as Kate plunges back into her work—writing a book about America's most celebrated artistic era, the New York School of the 1940s and '50s, a circle that included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. But when a lunatic starts slashing the very paintings she is writing about—along with their owners—Kate is once again tapped by the NYPD. As she deciphers the evidence—cryptic images that reveal both the paintings and the people who will be the next targets—Kate is drawn into a world where art and art history provide lethal clues.