Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist .
. . and one woman driven to find her--this Reese's Book Club x Hello
Sunshine Selection is a "stunning achievement" (Los Angeles Times).
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur
in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is
comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered
women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many
others―and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing,
implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.
As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening
night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event
will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances.
Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala.
Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing.
Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who
happens to be Maggie's ex. A rogue's gallery of eccentric art world
figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn
into her own investigation of Lord's disappearance, she'll come to
suspect all of those closest to her.
Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a
page-turning exodus into the art world's hall of mirrors, and one
woman's journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and
secrets.
"It's a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which
characters you can and can't trust . . . There's a twist at the end that
still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good." --Reese Witherspoon (A
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)
