<p>The most prominent painter in southern California is found hanging in his Laguna Canyon studio.&nbsp;The Laguna Beach police initially think suicide; his sister says murder and works with Detective Tom Deaton to find her brother's killer.&nbsp;Together they follow a trail of death that takes them from southern California to France England and finally to a darkened cave that holds unspeakable secrets.&nbsp;&nbsp;The most ambitious yet of Richard B. Schwartz's novels <strong><em>Into the Dark</em></strong> is a tale of love and death of power greed and perversity.&nbsp;Its subject is art art whose price is written in blood.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>