In Malice Quite Close

<b>A sophisticated mystery debut in which priceless art and unspeakable desires converge</b><p>When French expatriate Tristan Mourault becomes enamored with fifteen-year-old Karen Miller he rescues her from her working-class circumstances and stages her death to mask his true crime. Years later Karen is now Gisèle and lives with Tristan in rarefied Devon Washington. She has married another man to keep up appearances but when her daughter stumbles upon a secret cache of paintings--all nudes of Gisèle--Tristan's carefully curated world begins to crumble. Set against a byzantine backdrop of greed artifice and manipulation--with tantalizing echoes of <i>Lolita</i>--<i>In Malice Quite Close</i> keeps its most devastating secrets right up until the very last page.</p>