From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Robert B. Parker's
Blind Spot
Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's
family apart and it's been six years since Moe's brushed the dust off
his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with
a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back
into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies.
Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's
dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. Three weeks into the
investigation, the cops have gotten nowhere and the parents have gotten
desperate. Desperation, the door through which Moe Prager always enters,
swings wide open. Just as in Sashi's paintings, there's much more to the
case than one can see at a glance.
With the help of an ex-football star, Moe stumbles aroupd the fringes of
the New York art scene, trying to get a handle on where the art stops
and the commerce begins. Much to Moe's surprise and disgust, he
discovers that Sashi is, on the one hand, revered as a cash cow and, on
the other, reviled as a fraud and a joke.
Suspects abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is
those closest to Sashi in life who have the most to gain from her death.
Cruel ironies lurk around every corner, beneath every painting, and
behind every door. Almost nothing is what it seems.
Beware the innocent monster, for it need not hide itself and it lives
closely among us: sometimes as close as the mirror.
