Book description
The young woman in the hair salon raises her shirt to show a friend a
work in progress-a riot of stunning tattoos. From the barber's chair,
Fred Taylor knows that those images-weird insects, beasts, and naked
human figures-could only come from something amazing: a hitherto unknown
painting of rare and significant value. And the girls don't have a clue.
Fred knows such a painting needs to be found. His inquiries lead him
from the salon to the illegal tattoo parlor of an unlicensed genius.
Everyone who must have seen the painting denies that it exists, despite
the vivid proof increasingly laid bare on the canvas of the
hairdresser's skin. Fred's employer, the collector Clayton Reed, is out
of the country. So Fred, left to his own devices, is free to follow the
trail, despite the distractions presented by the intriguing librarian
Molly Riley. Fred must proceed with caution. Then he encounters the
first serious bump in the road: a suspiciously convenient hit-and-run
that brings one potential informant to an abrupt dead end. A must-read
for all Michael Connelly fans-read it to see why. Nicholas Kilmer,
born in Virginia, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Normandy,
France. A teacher for many years, and finally Dean of the Swain School
of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he now makes his living as a
painter and art dealer. In 1964 he married Julia Norris, and with her
has four children.
